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Death-ritual and social structure in classical antiquity

by Ian Morris

This study examines how excavated burial remains serve as primary evidence for social history in the Graeco-Roman world. It analyses burial practices to understand community structures and social change from archaic Rhodes through to the late western Roman empire.

Accession 1988 ISBN 0521376114 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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