Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780203392485
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Classical Studies; Roman History & Culture;

Presenting a wide range of relevant, translatednbsp;texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book isnbsp;organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship.nbsp;The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.

Valerie M Hope is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University.nbsp; Her main research interest is Roman social history, focusing on Roman funerary customs and funerary monuments.nbsp; Her previous publications include Constructing Identity: The Roman Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nimes (2001) and Death and disease in the Ancient City (2000)

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