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Seminars on Memory and Mourning: Death in Ancient Rome

Saturday November 10, 2007

The Open University, Harborne, Birmingham.

PROGRAMME

Valerie Hope and Janet Huskinson (Open University):
Introducing Death in Ancient Rome.

David Noy (Lampeter):
‘Goodbye Livia’: Dying in the Roman Home.

Luke Houghton (Glasgow):
Death Ritual and Burial Practice in the Latin Love Elegists.

Emma-Jayne Graham (Cardiff):
Bits and Pieces: the Search for ‘Secondary Treatment’ in Roman Mortuary Practices.

Maureen Carroll (Sheffield):
‘The mourning was very good.’ Liberation and Liberality in Roman Funerary Commemoration.

Jean-Michel Hulls:
Poetic Monuments: Grief and Consolation in Statius Silvae 3.3.

Abstracts

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