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GKROMST 4H03

DEATH AND COMMEMORATION IN THE ROMAN WORLD

Undergraduate

Fall 2024 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction to Roman Death and Commemoration
  • Reading Commemoration for Cultural Values, Pt. 1: Formulae and Feeling
  • Reading Commemoration for Cultural Values, Pt. 2: Materials
  • Affective Relationships in Funerary Commemoration
  • Ancient Death and Demography
  • Death and Commemoration of Infants and Children
  • The Ancient Funeral
  • Attitudes about the Dead
  • Attitudes about Death
  • Personality and Identity through Inscriptions
  • Final Presentations I
  • Final Presentations II
  • Final Presentations III
  • Exam Season

Readings

  • Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook
    Valerie M. Hope · 2007 · Required
    Routledge (Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) · ISBN 0-415-33157-9
  • https://textbooks.mcmaster.ca ↗
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