Spirits of the dead Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe
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, an...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
2006
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in ancient documents
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b19490860*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
