Roman tombs and the art of commemoration : contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE

Roman tombs and the art of commemoration : contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE / Barbara E. Borg, University of Exeter.

The history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, especially concerning the significant developments of the second century CE. In this book, distinguished historian Barbara E. Borg employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore...

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Main Author: Borg, Barbara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome.
Burial > Rome.
Tombs > Rome.
Sepulchral monuments > Rome.
Rome > History > Antonines, 96-192.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • In search of deceased senators
  • Senatorial tombs after the late Republic: Augustus and a new decorum
  • Senatorial tombs of the second century
  • Messages
  • Conclusion
  • Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: From incineration to inhumation
  • Inhumation from the Republican to the Hadrianic period
  • Imperial burials
  • Conclusions
  • Family matters: The long life of Roman tombs
  • Élite burials
  • Sub-élite tombs
  • Conclusions
  • Straddling borderlines: Divine connotations in funerary commemoration
  • Portraits in divine costume
  • Temple tombs
  • Conclusions.

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