Francesco Trifilo, Ray Laurence

Mediterranean Timescapes

Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the use of age and time in Latin funerary epitaphs varied across the Western Mediterranean during the Roman era. Suitable for students and scholars of Roman history and archaeology, and ancient social history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032478869
• ISBN-10: 1032478861
• Artikelnr.: 72106790

Autorenporträt

Ray Laurence is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University (Australia). Prior to this, he was Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent (UK), which came after time at the Universities of Birmingham and Reading. His numerous books focus on ageing, Roman urbanism and Roman roads. He is the editor of the Routledge series Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism. Francesco Trifilò gained his PhD in Ancient History and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, (UK) before becoming a postdoctoral research fellow first at the University of Birmingham and then at the University of Kent. Subsequently, he pivoted into a career in financial services.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Commemoration of Age-at-Death
PART I Age-at-Death in Epitaphs - Issues and Possibilities
2. 'Demography' and the Measurement of Time in Epitaphs
3. Understanding the Use of Chronological Age: From the Life Course to Timescapes
4. Inscribing Age-at-Death as a Cultural Practice
5. Birthdays, Numbers and Centenarians
PART II Age and Society
6. Towards a Geography of Age and Gender in the Western Mediterranean
7. The Family, Age and the Commemoration of the Dead
8. Freed Slaves across the Mediterranean: Commemorating the Dead
9. Cities and Soldiers: The Use of Age in the Cemeteries of Roman Africa
PART III Mediterranean Timescapes
10. The Roman Armed Forces as an Epigraphic Institution
11. Age and Culture in Numidia: Establishing Localized Timescapes
12. Explaining Variation in the Use of Chronological Age across the Western Mediterranean
13. Timescapes of Life and Death in the Western Mediterranean
14. Afterword - the Archaeology of Latin Epitaphs in the Western Mediterranean