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Title:

Memory and mourning : studies on Roman death / edited by Valerie M. Hope and Janet Huskinson.

Publisher:

Oxbow Books,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxiv, 200 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Death--History.--Rome--History.
Memory--History.--Rome--History.
Mourning customs--Rome--History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome--History.
Death in literature.
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Death in art.
Architecture and society--History.--History.
Rome--Social life and customs.
Rome--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Hope, Valerie M., 1968-
Huskinson, Janet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Goodbye, Livia" : dying in the Roman home / David Noy -- Memory and materiality : re-embodying the Roman funeral / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Gender and Roman funeral ritual / Darja Šterbenc Erker -- Death Ritual and burial practice in the Latin love elegists / Luke B.T. Houghton -- "The sole glory of death" : dying and commemoration in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze -- "Causa ante mortua est quam tu natus es" : aspects of the funeral in Cicero's Pro rabirio perduellionis reo / Eleanor Brooke -- Bad deaths, better memories / Janet Huskinson -- "The mourning was very good" : liberation and liberality in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll -- Poetic monuments : grief and consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3 / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Remembering to mourn : personal mementos of the dead in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope.

ISBN:

184217990X (pbk.)
9781842179901 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)696942389

LCCN:

2010054111

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)