Ancestor Masks & Aristocratic Power In Roman Culture; Author: Flower, Harriet I.; Paperback

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Ancestor Masks & Aristocratic Power In Roman Culture

Author: Flower, Harriet I.
Paperback; 10 B&w Plates, 19 Line Drawings
422 pages
Published: October 1999
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199240248

Flower explains why the Roman elite commemorated politically prominent family members with wax masks worn by actors at the funerals of the deceased. She looks at literary sources, legal texts, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, and art, tracing the functional evolution of ancestor masks, from the third century BC to the sixth century AD.Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome. She traces the evolution of ancestor masks, and puts them into their legal, social, political and symbolic context.

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