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Edwards, Catharine

 
9780300217278: Death in Ancient Rome
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ISBN 10: 0300217277 ISBN 13: 9780300217278
Editorial: Yale University Press UK SR, 2007

Sinopsis

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 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' (1993) and 'Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City' (1996).

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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.

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Editorial
Yale University Press UK SR
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300217277
ISBN 13 
9780300217278
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Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
300
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