Mediterranean Timescapes Chronological Age And Cultural Practice In The Roman Empire Ray Laurence by Ray Laurence, Francesco Trifilò 9781315267708, 1315267705 instant download after payment.

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in
23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman
era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across
this region., Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow
readers to begin to understand the differences between the cultures of Roman
Italy and contemporary societies in North Africa, Spain and southern Gaul. The
analysis focuses on the timescapes of cemeteries, a key urban phenomenon, in
relation to other markers of time, including the Roman invention of the birthday,
the revering of the dead at the Parentalia and the topoi of life’s stages. In doing so,
the book contributes to our understanding of gender, the city, the family, the role
of the military, freed slaves and cultural changes during this period. The concept
of the timescape is seen to have varied geographically across the Mediterranean,
bringing into question claims of cultural unity for the Western Mediterranean as
a region. Mediterranean Timescapes is of interest to students and scholars of Roman
history and archaeology, particularly that of the Western Mediterranean, and
ancient social history.