Death in Rome: tombs, cemeteries and memory in ancient Rome 1202-OG-EN-DIR

This class will discuss funerary customs in ancient Rome. The different types of funeral ceremonies and tombs will be examined, as well as epitaphs and commemorative practices. Based on an analysis of source material from Rome and Italy, the following will be presented:
1. the ways of burying the dead, the course and significance of funeral ceremonies,
2. the different types of tombs (from the imperial tombs, through the family tombs of the Roman middle class, to the mass graves of the poorest) taking into account their archaeological and social context,
3. epitaphs as a tool of social communication (methods of conveying and reading messages concerning the legal and social status of the dead, their gender and ethnicity,
4. graves and cemeteries as memorials. Commemorative ceremonies, their types, organisers and participants.

List of topics:
1. Types of burials and the conduct of funerary ceremonies in Rome.
2. Imperial tombs, family tombs, columbaria and catacombs in Rome.
3. Tomb monuments: sarcophagi, tombstones, altars and urns.
4. Tombstone inscriptions:
- main elements of the form
- Roman onomastics (name as an indication of legal status),
- methods of reading gravestone inscriptions,
- principles of editing tombstone inscriptions.
5. organisation, course and significance of commemorative practices in Rome.

Całkowity nakład pracy studenta

(po angielsku) Contact hours with teacher: - participation in lectures - 30 hrs/semester - consultations- 5hrs/semester Self-study hours: - preparation for lectures – 20 hrs - reading literature- 20 hrs Altogether: 75 hrs (3 ECTS)

Efekty uczenia się - wiedza

(po angielsku) - (student) is able to identify the main elements of Roman funeral ceremonies, - (student) will know the main types of sources used in the study of funerary ritual and burial in ancient Rome, - (student) understands the relationship between different types of burial/commemoration and the social status of the deceased.

Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności

(po angielsku) Students will be able to: - analyse source material relating to burial and commemoration in the Roman world, - identify individual elements of the form of tombstone inscriptions, - determine the status and identity of persons appearing in analysed epigraphic texts

Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne

(po angielsku) understanding the importance of the heritage of antiquity for the history of Europe

Metody dydaktyczne

(po angielsku) demonstration, description, conversation lecture, paper

Wymagania wstępne

(po angielsku) basic knowledge of ancient Roman history

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Przemysław Wojciechowski

Kryteria oceniania

oral examination/presentations

Literatura

M. Carroll, Spirits of the Dead. Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe, Oxford 2006,
V.M. Hope, Roman Death: the Dying and the Dead in Ancient Rome, London 2009,
A.E. Gordon, Illustrated introduction to Latin Epigraphy, Los Angeles - London 1983.
G. Walser, Roemische Inschriftenkunst, Stuttgart 1993.

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