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This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

Sarcophagi, Roman. --- Sarcophagi, Roman --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Sculpture --- Sarcophages romains --- Roman sarcophagi --- 726.829 --- 726.829 Sarcofagen --- Sarcofagen --- Roman Art. --- Roman Culture. --- Roman Society. --- Sarcophagi.

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Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently.

Social structure --- Wills (Roman law) --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Roman law --- Rome --- Social conditions. --- Rome. --- afterlife. --- ancient history. --- ancient rome. --- captatio. --- death. --- duty of testacy. --- emperor. --- family. --- freedom. --- heirs. --- history. --- inheritance. --- legal historians. --- legal system. --- manumission. --- mortality. --- nonfiction. --- patriarchy. --- philanthropy. --- public philanthropy. --- roman culture. --- roman family. --- roman history. --- roman society. --- roman testator. --- romans. --- rome. --- slaves. --- social obligations. --- society. --- testator. --- wealth. --- wills.

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"Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 330-390 C.E.) is the earliest known Greek writer to collect and publish his own letters. Students and scholars may know him for his theological contributions, but his genius also extended into literary composition. This book builds a provocative case that Gregory's self-published letter collection constitutes not an epistolary archive, but an autobiography in epistolary form--a single text composed to secure his status among provincial contemporaries and his legacy among later generations of readers. As an autobiographical text, the letter collection utilizes self-presentational strategies that tap into late antique elite ideals in order to shore up Gregory's personal authority. The first chapter situates Gregory's publication of the letter collection within three contexts: his life, ancient autobiographical literature, and the history of Gregory's reception among his later biographers. The second examines the collection's textual history (printed editions and manuscripts) and argues for reconceptualizing its organization and thematic architecture. The third, fourth, and fifth chapters focus on the collection's three self-presentational currents--mastery of eloquence, philosophical supremacy, and friendship with Saint Basil of Caesarea. Despite not holding any office within the church at the time of publication, the letter collection and its self-presentational motifs gave him the tools he needed to construct a personalized authority"--Provided by publisher.

Cappadocian Fathers --- Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cappadocian Fathers. --- Gregory, --- autobiographical epistolary collection. --- autobiography in epistolary form. --- christianity and classical culture. --- christianity. --- christianization of roman society. --- engagement with literary culture. --- fascinating. --- fourth century christian intelligentsia. --- late ancient letter writing. --- leadership in church. --- saint gregory of nazianzus. --- seminal figure in late antique christianity. --- unique. --- view of gregorys life. --- Gregory, - of Nazianzus, Saint. - Correspondence. --- Gregory, - of Nazianzus, Saint

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This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans.

Honor in literature. --- Honor --- Latin literature --- National characteristics, Roman. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Rome --- Historiography. --- 937 --- -Honor in literature --- -National characteristics, Roman --- Roman national characteristics --- 937 Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- Geschiedenis van Rome tot 476 --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Honour --- Chivalry --- Conduct of life --- History --- History and criticism --- Honor in literature --- National characteristics, Roman --- 937 History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- History of ancient Rome (to 476 AD) --- ancient roman history. --- ancient roman society. --- ancient romans. --- ancient rome. --- anthropology. --- choosing life. --- cicero. --- confession. --- contest culture. --- cultural studies. --- dishonor. --- embodiment. --- emotional life. --- honor. --- inner desires. --- livy. --- modern history. --- ordeals. --- philosophical code. --- philosophy. --- psychology. --- remedies of defeat. --- roman empire. --- roman republic. --- roman soul. --- rome. --- seneca. --- sense of shame. --- sentiment. --- shame. --- social behavior. --- social fabric. --- social theory. --- sociology. --- spirit speaking. --- spiritual life. --- supplication. --- symbol. --- theory of the self.

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A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, husbands and wives, and elite Romans and slaves to work together to manage the community's relationship with its gods.Like their male colleagues, priestesses offered sacrifices on behalf of the Roman people, and prayed for the community's well-being. As they carried out their ritual obligations, they were assisted by female cult personnel, many of them slave women. DiLuzio explores the central role of the Vestal Virgins and shows that they occupied just one type of priestly office open to women. Some priestesses, including the flaminica Dialis, the regina sacrorum, and the wives of the curial priests, served as part of priestly couples. Others, such as the priestesses of Ceres and Fortuna Muliebris, were largely autonomous.A Place at the Altar offers a fresh understanding of how the women of ancient Rome played a leading role in public cult.

Women priests --- Rome --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion. --- Bona Dea. --- December rites. --- Fordicidia. --- Fortuna Muliebris. --- Jupiter. --- Magna Mater. --- October House. --- Roman politics. --- Roman priesthood. --- Roman religion. --- Roman ritual system. --- Roman society. --- Roman women. --- Salian Virgins. --- Vesta. --- Vestal Virgins. --- Vestal costume. --- Vestal priesthood. --- Vestal regalia. --- Vestal virgins. --- Vestals. --- ancient Rome. --- authority. --- birth families. --- collegium pontificum. --- cultic assistants. --- female sacrificial incapacity. --- feminine virtue. --- fertility. --- flamen Martialis. --- flamen. --- flamines. --- flaminica Dialis. --- flaminica Martialis. --- flaminicae. --- food supply. --- freedwomen. --- gender constructions. --- internal autonomy. --- laywomen. --- leadership. --- male authority. --- mola salsa. --- moral probity. --- palla. --- pax deorum. --- pontifex. --- pontifical college. --- priest. --- priestess. --- priestesses. --- priestly couples. --- priestly service. --- public careers. --- public cult. --- public cults. --- public priestesses. --- public ritual. --- public slaves. --- regina sacrorum. --- religion. --- religious activities. --- religious official. --- religious orders. --- religious roles. --- religious service. --- rex sacrorum. --- ritual activities. --- ritual impurity. --- ritual purity. --- rituals. --- sacerdotes. --- saliae virgines. --- seni crines hairstyle. --- suffibulum. --- tunica. --- virginity.