Memento mori : what the Romans can tell us about old age & death / Peter Jones.

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Jones, P. V. (Peter V.) [author.]

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TextProducer: What the Romans can tell us about old age and death Whakaahuatanga: 212 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781786494801
1786494809

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DDC classification:

155.9370937 23

Contents:

1.Lifespan -- 2.Young versus old: a brief digression -- 3.The death of children -- 4.The trials of old age -- 5.Facing up to death -- 6.Exemplary and ignominious deaths -- 7.Cicero's De Senectute: `On Old Age' -- 8.Death and burial -- 9.Epitaphs and the afterlife -- 10.Epilogue: Memento Mori.

Summary: Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers. From the elites' philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori ('Remember you are mortal') shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers. From the elites' philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori ('Remember you are mortal') shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.

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