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The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman: A Social History

by Jeremy Hartnett
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781009536097
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 204
  • Original Price: USD 30.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 338 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / General

When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius' biography, as well as his wife's, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument's scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries.

Hartnett, Jeremy: - Jeremy Hartnett is Professor of Classics at Wabash College, where he holds the Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His book The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome (2017) was awarded the James Henry Breasted Award by the American Historical Association.

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