Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity Shows how the excavated remains of burials are a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 22 October 1992
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Sociology: Death & Dying | General & World History | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780521376112 ISBN 10: 0521376114
- Sales rank: 442,094
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Full description for Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite. They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular, burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and the last days of the western Roman empire.
