Death in Ancient Rome - Catharine Edwards

Death in Ancient Rome

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2007
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-11208-5 (ISBN)
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For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Drawing on the varied accounts of death in the writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, this work investigates the complex significance of dying in the Roman world.
For the Romans, the manner of a person’s death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great artist—and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards draws on the many and richly varied accounts of death in the writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, including Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Tertullian, and Augustine, to investigate the complex significance of dying in the Roman world.
Death in the Roman world was largely understood and often literally viewed as a spectacle. Those deaths that figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent—murders, executions, suicides—and yet the most admired figures met their ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity. From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators, political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian, the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and Nero’s mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in Roman literature and history.

Catharine Edwards is professor of classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome and Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.7.2007
Zusatzinfo 20 b-w
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-300-11208-4 / 0300112084
ISBN-13 978-0-300-11208-5 / 9780300112085
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