The Epigraphy of Death

Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome

• Author(s): Oliver, Graham John Oliver, Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture Graham Oliver, Graham John Oliver,
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Pages: 225
• ISBN_10: 0853239150
  ISBN_13: 9780853239154
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... Tombstones provide the largest single category of epigraphical evidence from the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, and their inscriptions have been widely studied with reference to art and cultural history, ancient social history, prosopography and onomastics. But even though students of history and archaeology devote extensive attention to death and burial in antiquity, epigraphy - the study of inscriptions - remains, for many, an abstruse subject.