In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which
the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of
evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the
surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite.
They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans
constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular,
burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris
illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with
examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political
context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and
the last days of the western Roman empire.
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ISBN
9780511876295
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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