Carroll, Maureen.

Spirits of the dead Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe / [electronic resource] : Maureen Carroll. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xx, 331 p. : ill., maps. - Oxford studies in ancient documents . - Oxford studies in ancient documents. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index.

Memory and commemoration -- Anonymity, violation, and memory loss -- Selecting a monument -- Conveying a message --Causes of death -- Family and household -- Mapping population movement -- Social mobility and social change -- Death on earth, life in heaven.


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2013.
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Sepulchral monuments--Rome.
Epitaphs--Rome.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome.


Europe, Western--Antiquities, Roman.
Rome--Social life and customs.
Rome--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

DG103 / .C37 2006eb

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