Mortuary variability and social diversity in Ancient Greece : studies on Ancient Greek death and burial /
This volume brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Dimakis, Nikolas, editor. Dijkstra, Tamara M., editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2020] |
| Series: | Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | This volume brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. Even though, at death, identity and social status may undergo major changes, by studying funerary customs we can greatly gain in the understanding of a community's social structure, distribution of wealth and property, and the degree of flexibility or divisiveness in the apportionment of power. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, ancient Greece offers a unique context for exploring, through the burial evidence, how communities developed. Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities. Themes discussed include issues of territoriality, the reconstruction of social roles of particular groups of people, and the impact that major historical events may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1789694434 9781789694437 |
| Author Notes: | Tamara M. Dijkstra is a researcher at the Department of Greek Archaeology at the University of Groningen. She specialises in the funerary archaeology and epigraphy of Classical to Roman Greece and examines the relation between mortuary practices, social structure, and social identities. She also studies Hellenistic domestic archaeology within the Halos Archaeological Project. |