Bibliograph

Death and renewal, Keith Hopkins

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Label

Death and renewal, Keith Hopkins

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Death and renewal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1086476270

Responsibility statement

Keith Hopkins

Series statement

Sociological studies in Roman history, volume 2Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC – AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ranges over aristocratic death rituals and tombs, funerals and ghost stories, to the search for immortality and the power of the Roman dead in distributing property by written wills.--, Provided by publisher

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Death & Renewal

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