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
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.