Description
Book SynopsisThis volume publishes the results of the rescue excavations along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth in 1961 and 1962. It examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town.
Trade ReviewSlane's systematic study provides fresh insights into the changing burial practices at Corinth from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD, while offering a well-illustrated piece of research with informative maps, plans, drawings, and plates.
Chrysanthi Gallou,
The Classical Review 68 (2018).
"This volume will be particularly valuable for scholars interested in an important body of new evidence for burial ritual in a prominent Roman colony. The book is a needed contribution to ongoing scholarly re-evaluation of Roman and Late Roman burial practice at several cemeteries across the northeastern Peloponnese. It will also serve as an essential reference for those working on Roman provincial mortuary behaviors generally, due especially to the thoughtful documentation of architectural comparanda. . . . Students and established scholars alike will benefit from the opportunity to work through an exemplary treatment of the explanatory potentialities of legacy data."
Melissa G. Morison,
AJA 123.1 (2019).
"[Slane] aptly makes clear what fruits can be harvested from a comprehensive (re)study of older excavations ... and has delivered an interesting and important volume on one of the more profound and intimate aspects of (past) human behanvior...."
Philip Bes,
Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (2018), pp. 498-502.
