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History: Classical
Bodel, J. 2000
‘Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter’s fields in ancient Rome’, in V. Hope & E. Marshall (eds) Death and Disease in the Ancient City, London: Routledge, 128-151.
Davies, J. 2016
‘Living to living, living to dead: communication and political rivalry in Roman tomb design’, in A. Maddrell & J. Sidaway (eds) Deathscapes: Spaces for Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, London: Routledge, 225-242 .
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Davies, J. 1999
Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, London: Routledge.
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Erasmo, M. (ed.) 2024
A Cultural History of Death. Volume 1: A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity, London: Bloomsbury.
Finucane, R. 1981
‘Sacred corpse, profane carrion: social ideals and death rituals in the Later Middle Ages’, in J. Whaley (ed.) Mirrors of Mortality, London: Europa, 40-60.
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Håland, E. 2014
Rituals of Death and Dying in Ancient and Modern Greece: Writing History from a Female Perspective, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Harries, J. 1992
‘Death and the dead Roman West’, in S. Bassett (ed.) Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 56-67.
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Hope, V. 1997
‘Constructing Roman identity: funerary monuments and social structure in the Roman world’, Mortality, 2:2, 103-123.
Hope, V. & Marshall, E. 2000
‘Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpse in ancient Rome’, in V. Hope and E. Marshall (eds) Death and Disease in the Ancient City, London: Routledge, 116-139.
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Morris, I. 1987
Burial and Ancient Society: the Rise of the Greek City State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Morris, I. 1996
Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Norman, N. 2003
‘Death and burial of Roman children: the case of Yasmina cemetery at Carthage – Part II: the archaeological evidence’, Mortality, 8:1, 36-47.
Patterson, J. 1992
‘Patronage, collegia and burial in Imperial Rome’, in S. Bassett (ed.) Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 15-27.
