Dying to Make a Point
Shadi Bartsch: Death and the Ancients, 15 November 2007
Death in Ancient Rome
by Catharine Edwards.
Yale, 287 pp., £25, June 2007,978 0 300 11208 5 Show More
by Catharine Edwards.
Yale, 287 pp., £25, June 2007,
The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint
by Emily Wilson.
Profile, 247 pp., £15.99, August 2007,978 1 86197 762 5 Show More
by Emily Wilson.
Profile, 247 pp., £15.99, August 2007,
“... than political ones. This arc from early to imperial Rome provides the organising principle for Catharine Edwards’s excellent book, which takes death and the representation of death as lenses through which to highlight some of the most striking characteristics of Roman culture. In analysing the ancient treatment of death, she shows that it is not ... ”