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Eating With The Dead in Christian North Africa
Eating With The Dead in Christian North Africa
Are the dead really gone? The impact of the dead in the realm of the living
The cult of the dead as a social tool for self promotion and identity formation: the
laudatio: “inscribing” historical memory
Frame the Christian cult of the dead as a continuity of the pagan traditions and
habits (pace Peter Brown)
Carthaginem dico, et urbi Romae maxime adversariam, et in Africano orbe quasi
Romam
The Funus
The aristocratic funeral as a
spectacle to further their agenda:
Polybius
Criticism of the spectacle: the
example of Lucian
Funerary legislation
The Monument