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" Spirits of the dead : "
Maureen Carroll.
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BL
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1029974
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b784344
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Carroll, Maureen.
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Spirits of the dead : : Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe /\ Maureen Carroll.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford studies in ancient documents
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1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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0191516198
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: 1281154849
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: 6611154841
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: 9780191516191
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: 9781281154842
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: 9786611154844
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0199291071
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9780199291076
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.
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| Contents
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Memory and commemoration -- Anonymity, violation, and memory loss -- Selecting a monument -- Conveying a message --Causes of death -- Family and household -- Mapping population movement -- Social mobility and social change -- Death on earth, life in heaven.
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"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, historical, and archaeological evidence in order to gain insight into the way Romans used funerary texts to establish a dialogue with their own society. Maureen Carroll brings together a large body of material from many geographical areas, shedding light on provincial and regional variation in funerary commemoration and even on the differences between funerary traditions of neighbouring towns." "Readership: archaeologists, ancient historians, classicists."--Jacket.
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Epitaphs-- Rome.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Rome.
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Sepulchral monuments-- Rome.
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Classical antiquities.
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Epitaphs.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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HISTORY-- Ancient.
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Manners and customs.
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Sepulchral monuments.
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Social conditions.
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Europe, Western, Antiquities, Roman.
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Rome, Social conditions.
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Rome, Social life and customs.
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Rome (Empire)
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Western Europe.
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| Dewey Classification
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937
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DG103.C37 2006eb
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