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Title:
Living through the dead : burial and commemoration in the classical world / edited by Maureen Carroll and Jane Rempel ; with a preface by John Drinkwater.
Publisher:
Oxbow Books,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xii, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Burial--Greece.
Burial--Rome.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Greece.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome.
Memorialization--Greece.
Memorialization--Rome.
Sepulchral monuments--Greece.
Sepulchral monuments--Rome.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Rome.
Other Authors:
Carroll, Maureen.
Rempel, Jane.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The power of the dead in classical Sparta : the case of Thermopylae / Polly Low -- Burial in the Bosporan kingdom : local traditions in regional context(s) / Jane Rempel -- Foreigners in the burial ground : the case of the Milesians in Athens / Celina L. Gray -- Memoria and Damnatio Memoriae : Preserving and erasing identities in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll -- From fragments to ancestors : re-defining the role of os resectum in rituals of purification and commemoration in Republican Rome / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Publius Vesonius Phileros vivos monumentum fecit : investigations in a sector of the Porta Nocera cemetery in Roman Pompeii / SeĢbastien Lepetz and William Van Andringa -- Marking the dead : tombs and topography in the Roman provinces / John Pearce -- The mechanics of social connections between the living and the dead in ancient Egypt / Martin Bommas -- Innocent X, Pontifex Optimus Maximus, and the church of Sant Agnese : a mausoleum for the Pamphilj "forum" / Susan Russell.
Series:
Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 5.
ISBN:
1842173766 (pbk.)
9781842173763 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)636917686
LCCN:
2010050511
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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