Detalls del llibre
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.
Llegir més - Autor/a Keith Hopkins
- ISBN13 9780521271172
- ISBN10 0521271177
- Pàgines 276
- Any Edició 1983
- Fecha de publicación 03/05/1983
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
Ressenyes i valoracions
Death and Renewal: Volume 2: Sociological Studies in Roman History (Alemany, Francès)
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- Keith Hopkins
- 9780521271172



