Ancestor masks and aristocratic power in Roman culture
By: Harriet I. Flower.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome.; Masks -- Rome.; Nobility -- Rome.; Elite (Social sciences) -- Rome.; Power (Social sciences) -- Rome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-392) and indexes.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Pennsylvania, 1993) presented under the title: Imagines Maiorum: ancestral masks as symbols of ideology and power.