Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome - Hardcover

Borbonus, Dorian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107031400 ISBN 13: 9781107031401

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome is the first book-length treatment of the columbarium tomb, a prominent but neglected type of collective burial monument in Imperial Rome.

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'In this slim book on death, Borbonus brings the world of the columbarium tombs to life. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome has a great sense of place - Rome and Italy breathe through its narrative - and, with this, a very enlightening summation of the less read Italian contributions to the history of non-elite burial tombs.' H. Sigismund Nielsen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reseña del editor:

Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome situates columbaria within the development of Roman funerary architecture and the historical context of the early Imperial period. Contrary to earlier scholarship that often interprets columbaria primarily as economic burial solutions, Dorian Borbonus shows that they defined a community of people who were buried and commemorated collectively. Many of the tomb occupants were slaves and freed slaves, for whom collective burial was one strategy of community building that counterbalanced their exclusion in Roman society. Columbarium tombs were thus sites of social interaction that provided their occupants with a group identity that, this book shows, was especially relevant during the social and cultural transformation of the Augustan era.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107031400
• ISBN 13: 9781107031401
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306