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Author: Guntram Koch
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1988-11-10
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0892360852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Roman Empire lavish marble monuments to the dead were erected to decorate tombs and cemeteries. A group of these memorials, often so opulent that they required considerable economic sacrifice from the families who commissioned them, is catalogued in this volume.
Author: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 1990-06-28
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0892361514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the sixth volume in the Museum’s series of Occasional Papers on Antiquities. Important Roman funerary monuments in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection are examined, and much new scholarly research is included. Contributors include Guntram Koch, Henning Wrede, Anne F. Eberle, Susan Walker, and Helga Herdejürgen, Ioanna Spiliopoulou-Donderer, and Klaus Parlasca.
Author: Elise A. Friedland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199921822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituates the study of Roman sculpture within the fields of art history, classical archaeology, and Roman studies, presenting technical, scientific, literary, and theoretical approaches.
Author: Nenad Cambi
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 933
ISBN-13: 9789531633819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1996-10-31
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780801855078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
Author: Barbara Borg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1108472834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 119
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Penelope J. E. Davies
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 0292756372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult. “Davies sets out to ask, How did the Romans bury Caesar? And with what monuments did they sing his praises? . . . The architectural elaboration of these structures, their siting in the capital, the lines of vision and approaches that exposed them to view, the paths their complex outworks formed for visitors to walk, are all picked out with skill and presented with care in Death and the Emperor.” Times Literary Supplement “This concise and lucidly written book is a very valuable new contribution to the studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography, and has the added benefit of discussing complex scholarly disputes in a manner that the non-specialist will probably follow with ease. . . . There is material in this volume that will be immensely useful to researchers in many areas: archaeology, history of architecture, iconography, history of religion, and Roman political propaganda, to name just a few. I strongly recommend it to scholars interested in any or all of the above topics.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review “Even though its focus is on only seven specimens of architecture, the book touches upon a broad array of aspects of Roman imperial culture. Elegantly written and generously illustrated . . . this book should be of great interest to the general public as well as to the scholarly community.” American Journal of Archaeology
Author: Janet Burnett Grossman
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1621390144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFunerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation from 1931 through 2009. The wide chronological span allows the author to trace changes in funerary monuments, particularly the break in customs that took place in 317 B.C., and the revival of figured monuments in the Roman period. The study consists of three essays followed by a catalogue of 389 objects. The author places the Agora sculptural fragments within the greater context of Attic funerary sculpture, moving from a general to a specific treatment of the funerary sculpture. The first essay is an overview of the study of Attic types of sculpture; the second discusses the specific features of funerary sculpture from Athens and Attica; and the third examines the characteristics of the funerary sculptures found in the Agora, thereby forming an introduction to the catalogue that follows. The catalogue includes stelai and naiskoi with female and/or male figures, sirens, decorative anthemia, funerary vessels, lekythoi, loutrophoroi, animals, mensa, columnar monuments, and more. There are separate indexes of museums, names, demes, places, and findspots, as well as a general index.
Author: Valerie M. Hope
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with monuments from their inscriptions, artworks, dimensions, type and location. The catalogue entries, which include descriptions and inscriptions, are presceded by a discussion of the gender, age, social status and title of the dead, funerary monuments of soldiers and people of other occupations, such as gladiators, freedmen, family tombs and the Roman way of mourning and commemorating the dead.
