Barbara E. Borg

Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration (eBook, ePUB)

Contextual Approaches to Funerary Customs in the Second Century CE

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, especially concerning the significant developments of the second century CE. In this book, distinguished historian Barbara E. Borg employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions that change our view of Roman society and its values. For the first time, senatorial burial practices can be reconstructed and contrasted with those of other classes. Borg then explains the change from incineration to inhumation as a revival of old Roman mores that accelerated after the example set by Hadrian. In the third chapter, she argues that tombs became prime locations for promoting and displaying long family lines among the elite, which then inspired freedmen to undertake similar commemorative practices. Finally she explores the association of deceased persons with the divine and apotheosis through portraits on divine body shapes and temple tombs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108586160
• Artikelnr.: 57077342

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.