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Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
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- ISBN
- 9781786494825
- Book Title
- Memento Mori : What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Gerontology, Death & Dying, Ancient / Rome
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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A revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality and the problems of old age, from the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici. In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers. From the elites' philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori ('Remember you die') shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.
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Atlantic Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1786494825
ISBN-13
9781786494825
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Memento Mori : What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Gerontology, Death & Dying, Ancient / Rome
Publication Year
2020
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
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Trade
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Dg78
Reviews
"Like everything else Jones writes, Eureka! is packed with intriguing nuggets for novices and experts alike . . . He flits between the beautiful and the banal, never missing a good story." -- Times on Eureka!, "Jones is a storyteller at heart, unashamed to entertain while educating by stealth, as all the best teachers do." -- Spectator on Eureka!, "An enjoyable, engaging and educational book that makes ancient attitudes on mortality accessible to us all." -- Minerva, "An often amusing, always illuminating, guide which offers an intriguing vantage point at which to examine Roman life." -- All About History "Fascinating. . . . It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination." -- Daily Telegraph, "An often amusing, always illuminating, guide which offers an intriguing vantage point at which to examine Roman life." -- All About History
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
937
Dewey Edition
23
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