Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0521376114
ISBN-13 : 9780521376112
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Book Synopsis Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity by : Ian Morris

Download or read book Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity written by Ian Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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