Death And Burial In The Roman World
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| Author | : J. M. C. Toynbee |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 1996-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0801855071 |
The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
| Author | : Valerie Hope |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2007-11-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134323093 |
Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world,this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.
| Author | : Lidewijde de Jong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2017-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107131413 |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.
| Author | : Ian Morris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1992-10-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521376112 |
In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite. They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular, burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and the last days of the western Roman empire.
| Author | : J. M. C. Toynbee |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1996-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801855078 |
The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
| Author | : Donald G. Kyle |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134862725 |
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.
| Author | : Valerie M. Hope |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Architecture and society |
| ISBN | : 9781842179901 |
This volume challenges boundaries between traditional academic disciplines and utilizes current approaches in Scholarship. It-highlights how death was interwoven with Roman life and brings together diverse evidence such is poetry, oratory, portraiture, epigraphy, and funerary monuments. These chapters individually and collectively demonstrate the significance of studying the evidence for Roman death and death rituals, and how concerns for memory and mourning both shaped and were reflected in that evidence. --Book Jacket.
| Author | : John Pearce |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy.
| Author | : Leslie Webster |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780520210608 |
Book accompanies 5 exhibitions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.
| Author | : Jon Davies |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134792719 |
In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are: * Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt * burying the Jewish dead * Roman religion and Roman funerals * Early Christian burial * the nature of martyrdom. Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death, burial and the afterlife in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship between social change and attitudes to death and dying.
