Description
The Tombs of Pompeii
Organization, Space, and Society
Routledge Studies in Ancient History Series
Language: EnglishSubject for The Tombs of Pompeii:
Keywords
Porta Di; CIL Iv; Altar Tombs; Dei Sepolcri; Caecilia Metella; Tomb Type; Tumulus Tomb; Fi Rst Century Ad; Funerary Record; Fi Ve; Burial Record; CIL Vi; Roman Burial Practices; Young Man; Funerary Epigraphy; Pliny HN; Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius; Monumental Tombs; Primary Inscription; Junian Latin; Funerary Inscriptions; Epigraphic Habit; Burial Plot; Voting Tribe; Lex Aelia Sentia
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 02-2015
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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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.
1. Introduction 2. Death in the Roman World 3. The Funerary Evidence of Pompeii: An Analysis 4. Epigraphy in the Pompeian Funerary Context 5. The Regulation of Burial Space 6. Class, Style and Self-Representation 7. Conclusions
Virginia Campbell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Reading, UK.