Death and Disease in the Ancient City (review)

This volume comprises ten essays that are expanded versions of papers delivered at a University of Exeter conference, "Pollution and the Ancient City," together with the editors' introduction describing the ways in which communities of Greece and Rome confronted deaths and disposed of bodies. The location of necropoleis outside a city's boundaries is a constant theme, yet burials of heroes and benefactors within cities continually provide exceptions to the rule. Fear of religious pollution as the motive for isolating the dead recedes to some degree in Rome of the Empire

Ancient history · Disease · Empire · Theme (computing) · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Ecology · History · Medicine · Pollution