Death and disease in the ancient city /
Human frailty and mortality influence the structure and functioning of all societies; questions of how the ancients coped with their own mortality, how they sought to classify and control the causes of death, and how they treated the dying and the dead, are therefore central to any understanding of...
| Други автори: | Hope, Valerie M., 1968-, Marshall, Eireann, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Routledge classical monographs.
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Death and disease in the ancient city. |
Съдържание:
- Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study / Eireanna Marshall
- Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis / Roger Brock
- Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the first century BC / Jennifer Clarke Kosak
- Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens / James Longrigg
- Medical thoughts on urban pollution / Vivian Nutton
- Towns and marshes in the ancient world / Federico Borca
- On the margins of the city of Rome / John R. Patterson
- Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpses in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope
- Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's field in ancient Rome / John Bodel
- Death-pollution and funeral in the city of Rome / Hugh Lindsay.