Death - Antiquity and Its Legacy

Informationen zum Autor Mario Erasmo is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. An editorial board member of the journal Mortality! he is the author of Reading Death in Ancient Rome (2008)! Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality (2004) and Archaic Latin Verse (2001). Mario Erasmo creatively explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to dying, death and interment. From theme funerals in St Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a rich and insightful discussion of finitude across the ages. Zusammenfassung Mario Erasmo creatively explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to dying, death and interment. From theme funerals in St Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a rich and insightful discussion of finitude across the ages.

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• Authors: Mario Erasmo, Mario (University of Georgia Erasmo, Professor Mario (University of Georgia Erasmo
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2012
• EAN: 9781848855564
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-556-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Ancients and Moderns; Ancients and Moderns (Hardcove; Ancients and Moderns; Ancients and Moderns (Hardcove
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore