Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century AD Rome

by Barbara E. Borg

Tombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a transitional period, an era of major challenges -- political,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199672733
• ISBN13: 9780199672738
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.7"