Constructing Identity: The Roman Funerary Monuments of Aquileia, Mainz and Nimes

by Valerie M. Hope

A catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with monuments from their inscriptions, artworks, dimensions, type and location. The catalogue entries, which include descriptions and inscriptions, are preceded by a discussion of the gender, age, social status and title of the dead, funerary monuments of soldiers and people with other occupations, such as gladiators, freedmen, family tombs as well as consideration of the Roman way of mourning and commemorating the dead.

231 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2001

About the author

Dr. Valerie M. Hope is a Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Dr Hope studied for her first degree in Ancient History at University College Swansea, and then took an MA in Roman Social History at the University of Reading. A Ph.D. on Roman funerary monuments followed. She then taught in the Classics Department at the University of Reading for several years, before joining the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University.