Death : antiquity and its legacy / Mario Erasmo.
Erasmo, Mario.
2012
GT3251.A2 E73 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Death : antiquity and its legacy / Mario Erasmo.
Author Erasmo, Mario.
ISBN 9780195380989 pbk. alk. paper
0195380983 pbk. alk. paper
9780195380972 alk. paper
0195380975 alk. paper
Publication Details New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number GT3251.A2 E73 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 393
Summary Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times. Remarkably, across the span of several millennia and despite the myriad of cultural profusions since antiquity, we can recognize in the customs of ancient Greece and Rome ceremonies and rituals that have lasting resonance today in both the East and West. For example, preparing the corpse of the deceased, holding a memorial service, the practice of cremation and of burial in "resting places" are all processes that can trace their origin to ancient practices. Such rites, described by Cicero and Herodotus, among others have defined traditional modern funerals. Yet of late there has been a shift away from classical ritual and somber memorialization as the dead are transformed into spectacles. Impromptu roadside shrines, "virtual" memorials, the embalmment of the deceased in the attitude of daily activity, and even firework displays have come to the fore as new modes of marking, even celebrating, bereavement. What is causing this change, and how do urbanization, economic factors, and the rise of individualism play a part? In this book the author explicates and explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to death and interment. From theme funerals in St. Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a discussion of the end of life across the ages.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-170) and index.
Series Ancients and moderns series.
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Funerals
Funeral paradigms
Death on the periphery
Staging the dead
Viewing the dead
Likening the dead
Animating the dead
Disposal
Cremation
Staging cremations
Containing the dead
Burials and secondary disposal
Location and commemoration
The dead on the periphery
The ancient dead on the periphery
Gates of the living and the dead
Legacy of Roman tombs
Neoclassicism
Cult of the dead
(Self-) identifying the dead
Moving memorials
Visiting the dead
Drinking and eating with the dead
Touring the dead.

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