Book chapter

Wax and Plaster Memories : Children in Elite and non-Elite Strategies

    2010
Published in:
  • Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture / Dasen, Véronique ; Späth, Thomas. - 2010, p. 109-145
English Various strategies were adopted to preserve and honour familial memory in ancient Rome. Most famous are portraits of ancestors, "imagines maiorum", depicting office holders, which marked aristocratic habits of the late Roman Republic. Literary and archaeological sources reveal a range of alternative "imagines" in non-elite circles of later periods which may refer to these prestige objects and express the importance of children, male and female, in the construction of familial identity.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie
Language
  • English
Classification
Archeology
License
License undefined
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/306657
Statistics

Document views: 97 File downloads:
  • Dasen_2010_wax_and_plaster_memories._children.pdf: 209