Reading Death in Ancient Rome

by Mario Erasmo

Book Overview

In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewer/reader in the ritual process, specifically by invoking and playing on their cultural associations at a number of levels simultaneously. He focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256287
• ISBN13: 9780814256282
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"