Mediterranean timescapes : chronological age and cultural practice in the Roman empire
| 1. Verfasser: |
Laurence, Ray, 1963-
, [VerfasserIn]
Trifilò, Francesco , [VerfasserIn] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2023].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Parallelausgabe: |
Mediterranean timescapes (Online version) | ISSN: 978-1-315-26770-8 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- "Demography" and the measurement of time in epitaphs
- Understanding the use of chronological age: from the life course to timescapes
- Inscribing age at death as a cultural practice
- Birthdays, numbers and centenarians
- Towards a geography of age (and gender) in the western Mediterranean
- The family, age, and the commemoration of the dead
- Freed slaves across the Mediterranean: commemorating the dead
- Cities and soldiers: the use of age in the cemeteries of Roman Africa
- The Roman armed forces as an epigraphic institution
- Age and culture in Numidia: establishing localised timescapes
- Explaining variation in the use of chronological age across the western Mediterranean
- Timescapes of life and death in the western Mediterranean
- Afterword: The archaeology of Latin epitaphs in the western Mediterranean
- Index.
