Mediterranean timescapes : chronological age and cultural practice in the Roman empire /

Mediterranean timescapes : chronological age and cultural practice in the Roman empire /

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Author / Creator:	Laurence, Ray, 1963- author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. ©2023
Description:	xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Inscriptions, Latin -- Rome. Epitaphs -- Rome. Inscriptions, Latin -- Mediterranean Region. Epitaphs -- Mediterranean Region. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome. Sepulchral monuments -- Rome. Epitaphs. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Inscriptions, Latin. Sepulchral monuments. Social conditions. Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Rome -- Social conditions. Mediterranean Region. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13118207

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Other authors / contributors:	Trifilò, Francesco, author.
ISBN:	9781138288751 1138288756 9781032478869 1032478861 9781315267708
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand the differences between the cultures of Roman Italy and contemporary societies in North Africa, Spain, and southern Gaul. The analysis focuses on the timescapes of cemeteries, a key urban phenomenon, in relation to other markers of time, including the Roman invention of the birthday, the revering of the dead at the Parentalia and the topoi of life's stages. In doing so, the book contributes to our understanding of gender, the city, the family, the role of the military, freed slaves, and cultural change during this period. The concept of the timescape is seen to have varied geographically across the Mediterranean, bringing into question claims of cultural unity for the Western Mediterranean as a region. Mediterranean Timescapes is of interest to students and scholars of Roman history and archaeology, particularly that of the Western Mediterranean, and ancient social history"--
Other form:	Online version: Laurence, Ray, 1963- Mediterranean timescapes London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, b2023 9781315267708

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