Memory and mourning
Subtitle: studies on Roman death
By: edited by Valerie M. Hope and Janet Huskinson
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; Oakville [CT]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781842179901
Subjects: Social life and customs; Death; Death in literature; Funeral rites and ceremonies; History and criticism; Antiquities; Mourning customs; Rome; Latin literature; Memory; Architecture and society; Death in art; History
Description: Death is a life crisis; a time of change and transformation, for the dead and the bereaved. Thus how dying, death and death rituals are used, described, presented and interpreted is fundamental to any society. This volume includes ten chapters, from expert contributors, which explore funerary rituals and commemoration in the Roman world, focusing upon the themes of memory and mourning. How were the memories of the dead constructed and contested; what role did funerals, oratory-and history, writing play in the names of the dead; how Were the dead mourned and commemorated?

This volume challenges boundaries between traditional academic disciplines and utilizes current approaches in Scholarship. It-highlights how death was interwoven with Roman life and brings together diverse evidence such is poetry, oratory, portraiture, epigraphy, and funerary monuments. These chapters individually and collectively demonstrate the significance of studying the evidence for Roman death and death rituals, and how concerns for memory and mourning both shaped and were reflected in that evidence. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Goodbye, Livia" : dying in the Roman home / David Noy; title: Memory and materiality : re-embodying the Roman funeral / Emma-Jayne Graham; title: Gender and Roman funeral ritual / Darja Šterbenc Erker; title: Death Ritual and burial practice in the Latin love elegists / Luke B.T. Houghton; title: "The sole glory of death" : dying and commemoration in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze; title: "Causa ante mortua est quam tu natus es" : aspects of the funeral in Cicero's Pro rabirio perduellionis reo / Eleanor Brooke; title: Bad deaths, better memories / Janet Huskinson; title: "The mourning was very good" : liberation and liberality in Roman funerary commemoration / Maureen Carroll; title: Poetic monuments : grief and consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3 / Jean-Michel Hulls; title: Remembering to mourn : personal mementos of the dead in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope.