Death and Burial in the Roman World - Brossura

Toynbee, J. M. C. M.

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ISBN 10: 0801855071 ISBN 13: 9780801855078

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Throughout this book one is continuously conscious of the richness of the material and the difficulties the author must have encountered in trying to keep her work within manageable proportions. This she has accomplished in masterly fashion, giving us enough of each topic to prevent her treatment ever being described as summary, and yet making us aware of unresolved questions and filled with the desire to know the answers... This is most certainly a book which will inspire further research, perhaps in the form of more detailed studies of burial rights in individual provinces and their development from earlier native customs which were neither Greek nor Etruscan."

(Times Literary Supplement)

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The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices―now available in paperback

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801855071
• ISBN 13: 9780801855078
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336