Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook

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ISBN: 9780415331586 | 0415331587
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Copyright: 12/20/2007

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Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, EM /EM this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.

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Studying Roman death	p. 1
What this book is and isn't	p. 5
Parameters	p. 6
Using this book	p. 7
Dying	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Infant mortality	p. 10
Death in old age	p. 14
Disease and disaster	p. 18
Murder and mayhem	p. 23
Battle and siege	p. 25
Death as entertainment	p. 28
Suicide	p. 31
Love and death	p. 37
Good deaths and bad deaths	p. 39
Mortality and memory	p. 46
Introduction	p. 46
Born to die	p. 47
Eat, drink and be merry	p. 51
Live well and die well	p. 53
Making a will	p. 56
Inheritance-hunters	p. 60
Wills and memory	p. 63
Monuments and memory	p. 71
Destroying memory	p. 80
Funerals	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Planning, instruction and cost	p. 86
Undertakers	p. 90
The moment of death	p. 93
Preparing the body	p. 97
The funeral procession	p. 100
Laments and speeches	p. 104
Cremation and inhumation	p. 107
At the pyre	p. 111
After the funeral	p. 115
Public funerals	p. 120
Elite funerals	p. 122
The cemetery	p. 128
Introduction	p. 128
Urban burial	p. 129
Cemetery development	p. 135
Monuments in the cemetery	p. 141
Monuments in the landscape	p. 148
Maintaining the cemetery	p. 152
Military cemeteries and burials	p. 155
Exclusion from the cemetery	p. 162
Abuse of the cemetery	p. 165
Grief	p. 172
Introduction	p. 172
Guidelines for mourning	p. 173
Parents and children	p. 180
Lost love	p. 189
Cicero and grief	p. 195
Philosophical consolation	p. 200
Poetic laments and consolations	p. 205
The afterlife	p. 211
Introduction	p. 211
The soul	p. 212
Heaven or hell?	p. 215
Alternative beliefs	p. 223
Belief and disbelief	p. 226
Ceremonies for the dead	p. 231
Ghost stories	p. 236
Raising and laying ghosts	p. 242
Appendix	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 258
Index	p. 270
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