Tombs of Pompeii - Organization, Space, and Society

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii's funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to assessing trends and practices. Including an extensive catalogue of tomb data and images never before assembled or published, this collective approach reveals new insights into ancient commemoration. The Tombs of Pompeii is the first English-language book on Pompeian funerary rituals. It's also the first in any language to provide a complete survey of the tombs of Pompeii and the first to situate Pompeian differences within a wider Roman burial context.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Death in the Roman World 3. The Funerary Evidence of Pompeii: An Analysis 4. Epigraphy in the Pompeian Funerary Context 5. The Regulation of Burial Space 6. Class, Style and Self-Representation 7. Conclusions

About the author

Virginia Campbell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Reading, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Campbell, Virginia (University of Oxford Campbell, Virginia L Campbell, Virginia L. Campbell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138809192
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80919-2
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ancient World, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology