Barbara E. Borg

Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472838
• ISBN-10: 1108472834
• Artikelnr.: 54469480

Autorenporträt

Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art, archaeology and history, and her monographs include Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome (2013). She is editor of Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic (2004) and A Companion to Roman Art (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. In search of deceased senators
2. Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumation
3. Family matters: the long life of Roman tombs
4. Straddling borderlines: divine connotations in funerary commemoration.