Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplemen

The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most com

This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigation