IDENTITY, IMMORTALITY, INTERACTION: FEMALE FUNERARY MONUMENTS AS SITES OF IDENTITY BUILDING IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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dc.contributor.advisorGensheimer, Maryl Ben_US
dc.contributor.authorChen, Amanda Kaneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T06:24:59Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T06:24:59Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractAs final markers of identity and memory, the tombs of Roman women carried ritual, ideological, and emotional significance. By surveying the funerary monuments of four distinct Roman women, it is possible to reconstruct, at least in part, the exhibited identities of Eumachia, Naevoleia Tyche, Faustina the Elder, Claudia, Amymone, and Postumia Matronilla. Drawing in the viewer to participate in the creation of identity through narrative and contextual relationships, each of the sepulchers solidifies the memories of the deceased women, thereby granting them an immortality of sorts. Engaging with issues of gender, status, the politics of self, propaganda, and regional variation, this paper seeks to explore the nuances of life, death, and identity in the Roman world, with an emphasis on understanding the monuments in their original contexts.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M28J6X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18452
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledClassical studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAncient Romeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFemale Identityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFunerary Monumentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPolitics of Selfen_US
dc.titleIDENTITY, IMMORTALITY, INTERACTION: FEMALE FUNERARY MONUMENTS AS SITES OF IDENTITY BUILDING IN THE ROMAN EMPIREen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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