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For
the lloma11s,the man11erof a person's death ,vas
the
1nost telling i11clication their true
character.
of_
l)eath revealecl the trt1e patriot, the gent1ine
.
philoso1,her, eve11,
perh,1ps the
great
artist-and
cert,1inly
the faithft1IChristia,,.
Catharine
Ed1,1•ards
dra,vs
011the
1na1l)'
and richly
varied accot1nts of
de,1tl1in
th· ,vriti11gsof Ro1nan historians, poets
and
e
philosophers,
inclucling
Cicero,
Lt1cretit1s,
Virgil,
Seneca,
Petronius,
·racitt1s,Tertt1llian
and
Augustine,
to in,•estigate the complex
significa11ce
dying in
of
tl1c
Ron1an ,v,1rl,I
.
[)e,1th i11the Ro111a11
,vorld ,vas largely
t1nderstood
a11doften
literally
vie,veclas a spectacle.
Those deaths
th,1t
figt1redin recorded history ,vere
aln1ost
i11variably
viole11t-n1t1r<lers,cxect1tions,st1icides,-and yet
the
n1ost ,1,ln1iretlfig,,res
,net tl1cir ends ,vith
exe,nplar)'
cal1n,
their last ,vords
set
do,v11for f'Osterity. Fro,n
11,,bletleatl1s in
civil
,,,,tr, 1nortal combat bet,veen
gl,1cliators,r1oliticalexect1tio11 st1icide, to
the
and
cleathly <li1111er
Don1iti,t11, l1arro,ving deaths
of
of
the
,,,<1111en
,1stl1e
n1ythical Lt1cretiaa11cl
st1ch
Nero's
n1otl1erAgrif'f'i11a,as
,veil
as i11sta11ces Christian
of
111,1rtyrtl,11n,
Eti,var,1se11gagingly
exf1loresthe ct1ltt1re
of tleatl1
i11ll,1n1anliteratt1re a11dhistory.
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DEATH
IN ANCIENT
ROME
DEATHIN
ANCIENT
ROME
CATHARINE EDWARDS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW HAVEN AND LONDON

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