Death And Burial In The Roman World

Author : J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0801855071

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Death and Burial in the Roman World by J. M. C. Toynbee Pdf

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 : J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472542104

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Death and Burial in the Roman World by J. M. C. Toynbee Pdf

Author : Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:999770452

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Death and Burial in the Roman World by Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee Pdf

Author : Valerie Hope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134323098

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Death in Ancient Rome by Valerie Hope Pdf

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
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107131415

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The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria by Lidewijde de Jong Pdf

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

Author : Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Funeral rites and ceremonies
ISBN : 0500400156

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Death and Burial in the Roman World by Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee Pdf

Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134862726

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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome by Donald G. Kyle Pdf

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 Hope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134323081

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Death in Ancient Rome by Valerie Hope Pdf

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 : Ian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521376114

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Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity by Ian Morris Pdf

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 : Valerie M. Hope,Janet Huskinson
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 184217990X

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Memory and Mourning by Valerie M. Hope,Janet Huskinson Pdf

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 : J. Rasmus Brandt,HÎkon Ingvaldsen,Marina Prusac
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976394

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Death and Changing Rituals by J. Rasmus Brandt,HÎkon Ingvaldsen,Marina Prusac Pdf

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals _ how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

Author : Maureen Carroll,Jane Rempel
Publisher : Studies in Funerary Archaeolog
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1842173766

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Living Through the Dead by Maureen Carroll,Jane Rempel Pdf

This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world. Living through the dead investigates the subject of death and commemoration from a diverse set of archaeologically informed approaches, including visual reception, detailed analysis of excavated remains, landscape, and post-classical reflections and draws on artefactual, documentary and pictorial evidence. The nine papers present recent research by some of the leading voices on the subject, as well as some fresh perspectives. Case studies come from Thermopylae, the Bosporan kingdom, Athens, Republican Rome, Pompeii and Egypt. As a collected volume, they provide thematically linked investigations of key issues in ritual, memory and (self)presentation associated with death and burial in the Classical period. As such, this volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and academics with specialist interests in the archaeology of the Classical world and also more broadly, as a source of comparative material, to people working on issues related to the archaeology of death and commemoration.

Author : John Pearce,Jake Weekes
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Burial
ISBN : 1785703234

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Death as a Process by John Pearce,Jake Weekes Pdf

Wide ranging exploration of how archaeological evidence for death and burial in the Roman world can illustrate process and ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing the dead in the earth to the return of the living to commemorate them.

Author : Jon Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134792719

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Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity by Jon Davies Pdf

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.

Author : Leslie Webster,Michelle P. Brown,Michelle Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520210603

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The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900 by Leslie Webster,Michelle P. Brown,Michelle Brown Pdf

Book accompanies 5 exhibitions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.