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Crisis and Ambition - Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome (Hardcover)
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Crisis and Ambition - Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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Tombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social
history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much
of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents,
for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome
and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third
century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a
transitional period, an era of major challenges - political,
economic, and social - which inspired creativity and innovation,
and paved the way for the new system of late antiquity. Barbara
Borg argues that during this time there was, in many ways, a return
to practices known from the Late Republic and early imperial
period, with spectacular monuments for the rich, and a large-scale
reappearance of collective burial spaces. Through a study of
terraced tombs, elite monuments, the catacomb nuclei, sarcophagi,
and painted image decoration, this volume explores how the third
century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, a
time when non-Christians and Christians shared fundamental ideas,
needs, and desires as well as cemeteries, tombs, and hypogea.
Ambition continued to be a driving force and a determining factor
in all social classes, who found innovative solutions to the
challenges they encountered.
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