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The Tombs of Pompeii - Organization, Space, and Society (Paperback)
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The Tombs of Pompeii - Organization, Space, and Society (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii
and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the
population, delving into the importance of social class and
self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of
Pompeii's funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of
evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not
conducive to assessing trends and practices. Here, a holistic
approach to the funerary monuments allows for the integration of
data from five different necropoleis and analysis of greater
accuracy and scope. Author Virginia Campbell demonstrates that the
funerary practices of Pompeii are, in some ways, unique in to the
population, moving away from the traditional approach to burial
based on generalizations and studies of typology. She shows that
while some trends in Roman burial culture can be seen as universal,
each population, time, and place constructs its own approach to
commemoration and display. Including an extensive catalogue of tomb
data and images never before assembled or published, this
collective approach reveals new insights into ancient
commemoration. The Tombs of Pompeii is the first English-language
book on Pompeian funerary rituals. It's also the first in any
language to provide a complete survey of the tombs of Pompeii and
the first to situate Pompeian differences within a wider Roman
burial context.
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