{"product_id":"9780199672738","title":"Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century AD Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eTombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a transitional period, an era of major challenges — political, economic, and social — which inspired creativity and innovation, and paved the way for the new system of late antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Borg argues that during this time there was, in many ways, a return to practices known from the Late Republic and early imperial period, with spectacular monuments for the rich, and a large-scale reappearance of collective burial spaces. Through a study of terraced tombs, elite monuments, the catacomb nuclei, sarcophagi, and painted image decoration, this volume explores how the third century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, a time when non-Christians and Christians shared fundamental ideas, needs, and desires as well as cemeteries, tombs, and hypogea. Ambition continued to be a driving force and a determining factor in all social classes, who found innovative solutions to the challenges they encountered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007316214000,"sku":"9780199672738","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199672738_p0.jpg?v=1763671239","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199672738","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}