Death : antiquity and its legacy / Mario Erasmo
- Author:
- Erasmo, Mario
- Published:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- xii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Funerals -- Funeral paradigms -- Death on the periphery -- Staging the dead -- Viewing the dead -- Likening the dead -- Animating the dead -- Disposal -- Cremation -- Staging cremations -- Containing the dead -- Burials and secondary disposal -- Location and commemoration -- The dead on the periphery -- The ancient dead on the periphery -- Gates of the living and the dead -- Legacy of Roman tombs -- Neoclassicism -- Cult of the dead -- (Self-) identifying the dead -- Moving memorials -- Visiting the dead -- Drinking and eating with the dead -- Touring the dead.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780195380972 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195380975 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195380989 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195380983 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-170) and index.
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