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, perhaps, 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.
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