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Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments
2023<p>Ancient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume were delivered as lectures at an online conference organized by the Department of Ancient History at the University of Pécs in ...
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Constructing Roman identity: Funerary monuments and social structure in the Roman world
Mortality, 1997Hundreds of thousands of tombstones survive from the Roman period. This paper explores the value of this source to the Roman social historian, using historical and sociological studies of funerary evidence, particularly of the Victorian period, to provide comparative models.
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Men among Monuments: Roman Topography and Roman Memory in Plautus’Curculio
Classical Philology, 2020AbstractThe description of Roman life at Plautus Curculio 462–86 is commonly treated as a straightforward guide meant to help the reader or spectator identify buildings and characters in the mid-Re...
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Roman Ridge Roman Road, Scheduled Ancient Monument 1179, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
2012A4 spiral ...
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Demolished Houses, Monumentality, and Memory in Roman Culture
Classical Antiquity, 2010This article examines the tradition of punitive house demolition during the Roman Republic, but from a sociocultural rather than institutional-legal perspective. Exploiting recent scholarship on the Roman house, on exemplarity, and on memory sanctions, I argue that narratives of house demolition constitute a form of ethically inflected political ...
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Addendum to "A Roman Monument in the Athenian Agora"
Hesperia, 1972< presentation of various components of a Roman monument which included two inscribed orthostates (I.G., 112, 2776) appeared in Hesperica, XLI, 1972, pp. 50-95. It was argued in the course of that presentation that the inscription should belong in the late Hadrianic or early Antonine period.
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Pagan Monuments Converted to Christian Use: The Roman "Diaconiae"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1953DURING THE early Middle Ages a large number of pagan buildings in Rome were adapted for Christian use. Outstanding among these is the group converted into diaconiae -Christian institutions devoted primarily to public welfare. There were twenty-two diaconiae existing in 800 A.D.; of these six have vanished so completely that we do not even know their ...
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