This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on
the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial
combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important
element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the
composition of the political elite in the late Republic and
Principate (249 BC - AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary
succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final
chapter ranges over aristocratic death rituals and tombs, funerals
and ghost stories, to the search for immortality and the power of
the Roman dead in distributing property by written wills.
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