The Tombs of Pompeii: Organization, Space, and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367871048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 372 str.

Virginia Campbell

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Death in the Roman World  3. The Funerary Evidence of Pompeii: An Analysis  4. Epigraphy in the Pompeian Funerary Context  5. The Regulation of Burial Space  6. Class, Style and Self-Representation  7. Conclusions

O autorze

Virginia Campbell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Reading, UK.