BookLiving through the dead : burial and commemoration in the classical world
Main title
- Living through the dead : burial and commemoration in the classical world / edited by Maureen Carroll and Jane Rempel ; with a preface by John Drinkwater.
Published/Created
- Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c2011.
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Description
- xii, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN
- 9781842173763 (pbk.)
- 1842173766 (pbk.)
LC classification
- DE61.B87 L59 2011
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Contents
- The power of the dead in classical Sparta : the case of Thermopylae / Polly Low -- Burial in the Bosporan kingdom : local traditions in regional context(s) / Jane Rempel -- Foreigners in the burial ground : the case of the Milesians in Athens / Celina L. Gray -- Memoria and Damnatio Memoriae : Preserving and erasing identities in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll -- From fragments to ancestors : re-defining the role of os resectum in rituals of purification and commemoration in Republican Rome / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Publius Vesonius Phileros vivos monumentum fecit : investigations in a sector of the Porta Nocera cemetery in Roman Pompeii / SeĢbastien Lepetz and William Van Andringa -- Marking the dead : tombs and topography in the Roman provinces / John Pearce -- The mechanics of social connections between the living and the dead in ancient Egypt / Martin Bommas -- Innocent X, Pontifex Optimus Maximus, and the church of Sant Agnese : a mausoleum for the Pamphilj "forum" / Susan Russell.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
- Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 5
- Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 5.
LCCN
- 2010050511
Dewey class no.
- 393.0938
Geographic area code
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National bib no.
- GBB068023
National bib agency no.
- 015567107
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocn636917686
Type of material
- Book
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