‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome

Expressions of grief and mourning are characteristic of Roman funerary inscriptions. Roman epitaphs express sorrow for the deceased and reveal familiar emotional responses to memories of the dead person. In our ancient sources, death is usually depicted as something unknowable. Like in contemporary...

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Autor: Gorostidi Pi, Diana
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Data de publicação:2019
País:España
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spelling ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient RomeGorostidi Pi, DianaInscripcions llatines -- RomaEpigrafia -- Roma90Expressions of grief and mourning are characteristic of Roman funerary inscriptions. Roman epitaphs express sorrow for the deceased and reveal familiar emotional responses to memories of the dead person. In our ancient sources, death is usually depicted as something unknowable. Like in contemporary societies, only philosophy and faith seem to offer any measure of relief when faced with the horrors of death, particularly in the case of deceased youth (mors im-matura), unfortunately a very common occurrence in classical antiquity. Ancient texts and inscriptions provide us with a wealth of expressions of grief and bereavement for children and young people who died prematurely. Common people lamented the inexorability of fate by immortalizing their loved ones in epitaphs carved in durable stone. Latin texts supplement our understanding of Roman attitudes towards death in various ways, going beyond contemporary religious beliefs, ritual practices and traditional values. Nevertheless, the ultimate goal was to preserve the memory of the dead person, often by recalling specific traits of their nature. Lastly, the pain caused by the death of one’s own children led to loneliness and a sense of abandonment, as shown in the epitaphs chosen by those who lived on.Freie Universität Berlin2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion20 p.application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/2072/368673https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol9.127RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésthersites 9 (2019): Ancient Greek and Roman Multi-Sensory Spectacles of Grief / Anastasia Bakogianni (ed.), pp. 71– 88Copyright (c) 2019 Diana Gorostidi Pi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2072/3686732026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
spellingShingle ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
Gorostidi Pi, Diana
Inscripcions llatines -- Roma
Epigrafia -- Roma
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title_short ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
title_full ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
title_fullStr ‘Too Young to Die’: Grief and Mourning in Ancient Rome
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Epigrafia -- Roma
90
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Epigrafia -- Roma
90
description Expressions of grief and mourning are characteristic of Roman funerary inscriptions. Roman epitaphs express sorrow for the deceased and reveal familiar emotional responses to memories of the dead person. In our ancient sources, death is usually depicted as something unknowable. Like in contemporary societies, only philosophy and faith seem to offer any measure of relief when faced with the horrors of death, particularly in the case of deceased youth (mors im-matura), unfortunately a very common occurrence in classical antiquity. Ancient texts and inscriptions provide us with a wealth of expressions of grief and bereavement for children and young people who died prematurely. Common people lamented the inexorability of fate by immortalizing their loved ones in epitaphs carved in durable stone. Latin texts supplement our understanding of Roman attitudes towards death in various ways, going beyond contemporary religious beliefs, ritual practices and traditional values. Nevertheless, the ultimate goal was to preserve the memory of the dead person, often by recalling specific traits of their nature. Lastly, the pain caused by the death of one’s own children led to loneliness and a sense of abandonment, as shown in the epitaphs chosen by those who lived on.
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