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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 April 2019
      18 April 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108690904
      9781108472838
      9781108460354
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108690904
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 368 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.643kg, 370 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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    The history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, especially concerning the significant developments of the second century CE. In this book, distinguished historian Barbara E. Borg employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions that change our view of Roman society and its values. For the first time, senatorial burial practices can be reconstructed and contrasted with those of other classes. Borg then explains the change from incineration to inhumation as a revival of old Roman mores that accelerated after the example set by Hadrian. In the third chapter, she argues that tombs became prime locations for promoting and displaying long family lines among the elite, which then inspired freedmen to undertake similar commemorative practices. Finally she explores the association of deceased persons with the divine and apotheosis through portraits on divine body shapes and temple tombs.

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    Advance praise:'This is an outstanding piece of work – the product of a very long period not only of thinking about this material but of doing fundamental research into what we know archaeologically. Borg is a pioneer in the new era that has been systematic about the study of assemblages – notably looking back into the old archives as well as at relatively rare modern finds. The book casts vibrant new light on questions of monument and memory, the shift from cremation to inhumation, the problems of individual apotheosis; it brilliantly marshals archaeological evidence against a series of epigraphically generated assumptions about individualism and against familial commemoration in the context of the Roman tomb, which dominated the scholarship of last generation.'

    Jaś Elsner - University of Oxford

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