Death in ancient Rome / Catharine Edwards
by Edwards, Catharine
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- ISBN 10
- 0300112084
- ISBN 13
- 9780300112085
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; xii, 287 pp., illustrations, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-281) and index. Contents; Introduction: Dying a Roman death -- Dying for Rome : the glorious death of a commander -- Death as spectacle : looking at death in the arena -- Fighting the fear of death -- Defiance, complicity, and the politics of self-destruction -- Dying in character : stoicism and the Roman death scene -- Tasting death -- A feminine ending -- Laughing at death : Christian martyrdom. Subjects; Death Social aspects Rome. Civilization, Ancient. Thanatology history. Death in literature.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385943
- Title
- Death in ancient Rome / Catharine Edwards
- Author
- Edwards, Catharine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300112084
- ISBN 13
- 9780300112085
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2007
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