Death Antiquity and Its Legacy

Name: Death Antiquity and Its Legacy
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ISBN: 9780195380989

ISBN-10: 0195380983

ISBN-13: 9780195380989

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mario Erasmo

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Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times. Remarkably, across the span of several millennia and despite the myriad of cultural profusions since antiquity, we can recognize in the customs of ancient Greece and Rome ceremonies and rituals that have lasting resonance today in both the East and West. For example, preparing the corpse of the deceased, holding a memorial service, the practice of cremation and of burial in "resting places" are all processes that can trace their origin to ancient practices. Such rites-described by Cicero and Herodotus, among others-have defined traditional modern funerals. Yet of late…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Foreword



Preface



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


Epilogue


Some Suggestions For Further Reading


Notes


Picture Credits


Index