Rest Lightly: An Anthology of Latin and Greek Tomb Inscriptions
A collection of various epitaphs, this brief volume offers interesting insights into the feelings of ancient people, their emotional response to loss, their approach to death, with the grief and suffering it entails. They are real human documents of a timeless beauty and poignancy... --The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1998A collection of various epitaphs, this brief volume offers interesting insights into the feelings of ancient people, their emotional response to loss, their approach to death, with the grief and suffering it entails. They are real human documents of a timeless beauty and poignancy... --The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1998Professor Shore's survey will serve the interested reader in two important ways by offering not only concrete evidence concerning Greco-Roman antiquity, but also valuable insight into an ineluctable aspect of our common humanity, mainly, our morality. --Michele V. Ronnick, Wayne State UniversityThe charm, poignancy, timelessness, and beauty of these epitaphs will immediately remind us of the brevity of life and of the everlastingness of the emotional response to loss, suffering and grief. --Edith M. A. Kovach, University of DetroitWe heartily recommend this book for the excellent way that it has combined layout and content. The themes of the epitaphts are universal, and in this way they reveal a transcendent viewpoint to the reader. The ancients are brought closer in a clear and unhurried milieu. --Inner Journeys, Volume VII, No. 1Professor Shore's survey will serve the interested reader in two important ways by offering not only concrete evidence concerning Greco-Roman antiquity, but also valuable insight into an ineluctable aspect of our common humanity, mainly, our morality. --Michele V. Ronnick, Wayne State UniversityThe charm, poignancy, timelessness, and beauty of these epitaphs will immediately remind us of the brevity of life and of the everlastingness of the emotional response to loss, suffering and grief. --Edith M. A. Kovach, University of DetroitWe heartily recommend this book for the excellent way that it has combined layout and content. The themes of the epitaphts are universal, and in this way they reveal a transcendent viewpoint to the reader. The ancients are brought closer in a clear and unhurried milieu. --Inner Journeys, Volume VII, No. 1 & 2