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Rather than organize the volume by the material or methodology, the editors have innovatively arranged the chapters to follow the progression of dying from the deathbed to the funeral to the commemoration of the dead... this volumes main value as a whole is in the way it presents serially the social responses to death in Roman society as well as a multiplicity of ways to understand the rituals around death as active components in shaping memory.' -- Edward M. Schoolman Bryn Mawr Classical Review ""...this is a valuable contribution to the field of Roman death."" -- A.C.L. Emmerson Journal of Roman Archaeology, 25 (2012)

Rather than organize the volume by the material or methodology, the editors have innovatively arranged the chapters to follow the progression of dying from the deathbed to the funeral to the commemoration of the dead... this volumes main value as a whole is in the way it presents serially the social responses to death in Roman society as well as a multiplicity of ways to understand the rituals around death as active components in shaping memory.' -- Edward M. Schoolman Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...this is a valuable contribution to the field of Roman death. -- A.C.L. Emmerson Journal of Roman Archaeology, 25 (2012)

Rather than organize the volume by the material or methodology, the editors have innovatively arranged the chapters to follow the progression of dying from the deathbed to the funeral to the commemoration of the dead... this volumes main value as a whole is in the way it presents serially the social responses to death in Roman society as well as a multiplicity of ways to understand the rituals around death as active components in shaping memory.' -- Edward M. Schoolman Bryn Mawr Classical Review Oct 2011 ...this is a valuable contribution to the field of Roman death. -- A.C.L. Emmerson Journal of Roman Archaeology 25 (2012)

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