1st Edition
The Tombs of Pompeii Organization, Space, and Society
By Virginia Campbell
Copyright 2015
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
212 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
372 Pages
212 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Death in the Roman World 3. The Funerary Evidence of Pompeii: An Analysis 4. Epigraphy in the Pompeian Funerary Context 5. The Regulation of Burial Space 6. Class, Style and Self-Representation 7. Conclusions
Biography
Virginia Campbell is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Reading, UK.
