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This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in Ancient Greece under Roman rule. Communities and individuals creatively used various modes of remembering and commemoration to adapt to the political and cultural changes of the first century BC and the first century AD.

Even though, at death, identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community's social structure, distribution of wealth and property, and the degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, ancient Greece offers a unique context for exploring, through the burial evidence, how communities developed. Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece brings together early career scholars working on...