Spirits of the dead : Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe / Maureen Carroll.

Spirits of the dead : Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe /

"Spirits of the Dead examines the importance attached to preserving the memory of the dead in the Roman world, and explores the ways in which funerary inscriptions can be used to reconstruct Roman lives, however fragmentarily and imperfectly. It is the only study to examine epigraphic, historic...

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Main Author: Carroll, Maureen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford studies in ancient documents.
Subjects:
Sepulchral monuments > Rome.
Epitaphs > Rome.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome.
Europe, Western > Antiquities, Roman.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Social conditions.
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