Death and renewal
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Death and renewal
（Sociological studies in Roman history, v. 2）
Cambridge University Press, 1985
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Originally published 1983
Bibliography: p. 257-265
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Murderous games
- 2. Political succession in the late Republic (249-50 BC) Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton
- 3. Ambition and withdrawal: the senatorial aristocracy under the emperors Keith Hopkins and Graham Burton
- 4. Death in Rome
- Bibliography
- Indexes.
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