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DEATH IN ANCIENT ROME
Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook
is an expertly selected compilation of
ancient texts in translation on the subject of death in ancient Rome.
Mortality rates were high in ancient Rome and how a person died was no
less important than how they lived. Despite the brutality of the assassina-
tions that feature in accounts of Roman political life, laudable figures faced
their deaths with dignity and stoicism, their last words set down for
posterity. Whether a Roman’s end was met in war, gladiatorial combat,
execution, murder, suicide, or simply ill health, it was almost certain to have
been a visible part of Roman life; even a spectacle. To understand life in
Rome, we need to understand death in Rome.
This book will enable you to do just that by providing the essential
primary sources on death, dying and the dead in Roman society and investi-
gating their value and significance.
The sources include literary evidence such as poetry, letters and philos-
ophy, as well as epitaphs and other inscriptions, along with visual material
of, in particular, funerary monuments and cemeteries.
This varied evidence collectively builds a vivid picture of how people died,
were buried, commemorated and remembered, and what the living believed
happened to the dead after they were gone.
Topics covered include the deathbed, making a will, memory promotion,
the funeral, the cemetery, funerary monuments, mourning rituals, expres-
sions of grief and afterlife beliefs.
Valerie M. Hope
is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the
Open University. Her main research interest is Roman social history,
focusing on Roman funerary customs and funerary monuments. 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).
DEATH IN
ANCIENT ROME
A sourcebook
Valerie M. Hope
First published 2007
by Routledge
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© 2007 Valerie M. Hope
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.
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reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
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retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hope, Valerie M., 1968–
Death in ancient Rome: a source book / Valerie M. Hope. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Death—Social aspects—Rome. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies—
Rome. 3. Rome—Religious life and customs. I. Title.
HQ1073.5.R66H67 2007
306.90937'6—dc22
2007020941
ISBN 0-203-39248-5 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-33157-9 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-33158-7 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-39248-5 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-33157-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-33158-6 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-39248-5 (ebk)

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