| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Oxford studies in ancient documents |
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Oxford studies in ancient documents.
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| Contents |
Memory and commemoration -- Anonymity, violation, and memory loss -- Selecting a monument -- Conveying a message --Causes of death -- Family and household -- Mapping population movement -- Social mobility and social change -- Death on earth, life in heaven |
| Summary |
"Spirits of the Dead examines the importance attached to preserving the memory of the dead in the Roman world, and explores the ways in which funerary inscriptions can be used to reconstruct Roman lives, however fragmentarily and imperfectly. It is the only study to examine epigraphic, historical, and archaeological evidence in order to gain insight into the way Romans used funerary texts to establish a dialogue with their own society. Maureen Carroll brings together a large body of material from many geographical areas, shedding light on provincial and regional variation in funerary commemoration and even on the differences between funerary traditions of neighbouring towns." "Readership: archaeologists, ancient historians, classicists."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Epitaphs -- Rome.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome.
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Sepulchral monuments -- Rome.
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Europe, Western -- Antiquities, Roman.
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Rome -- Social conditions.
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Rome -- Social life and customs.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006019813 |
| ISBN |
0191516198 (electronic bk.) |
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6611154841 |
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9780191516191 (electronic bk.) |
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9786611154844 |
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(Cloth) |
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(alk. paper) |
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