Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration - Contextual Approaches to Funerary Customs in the Second Century Ce

Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.

List of contents

1. In search of deceased senators; 2. Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumation; 3. Family matters: the long life of Roman tombs; 4. Straddling borderlines: divine connotations in funerary commemoration.

About the author

Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art, archaeology and history, and her monographs include Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome (2013). She is editor of Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic (2004) and A Companion to Roman Art (2015).

Summary

Employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions around Roman funerary customs that alter our view of the society and its values: senators' tombs, the change from incineration to inhumation, tombs showcasing family longevity, and the deceased's association with the divine and apotheosis.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara E. Borg, Barbara E. (University of Exeter) Borg, Borg Barbara E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108472838
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47283-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology