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Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age & Death
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ISBN10: 1786494825
ISBN13: 9781786494825
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781786494825
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
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 2,000 years ago. Romans inhabited a world where people, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defenses against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only 8% of the population made it over 60. 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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