Constructing Identity: The Roman Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nimes (bar s)

A catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with monuments from their inscriptions, artworks, dimensions, type and location. The catalogue entries, which include descriptions and inscriptions, are presceded by a discussion of the gender, age, social status and title of the dead, funerary monuments of soldiers and people of other occupations, such as gladiators, freedmen, family tombs and the Roman way of mourning and commemorating the dead.Hope, Valerie M. is the author of 'Constructing Identity: The Roman Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nimes (bar s)', published 2001 under ISBN 9781841711805 and ISBN 1841711802.