‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
Expressions of grief and mourning are characteristic of Roman funerary inscriptions. Roman epitaphs express sorrow for the deceased and reveal familiar emotional responses to memories of the dead person. In our ancient sources, death is usually depicted as something unknowable. Like in contemporary...
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Universität Potsdam
2019-12-01
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| Series: | thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date |
| Online Access: | https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/127 |