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Graduate Student, Classics
Thesis Title: Footsteps of the Dead: beliefs about the afterlife in funerary rituals and art from Etruscan Tarquinia
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G. Woolf
P. Perkins E-J. Graham F. Racine |
About
My doctoral thesis traces the development of the beliefs about the afterlife through funerary ritual, tomb form and iconographical evidence from the 9th to 1st century BC at Etruscan Tarquinia. Most notably was the belief that the dead embarked on a multi-staged journey to the underworld. I am specifically focussing on the evidence from one settlement as a way to try and analyse developments and change of a system of beliefs in one location.
My thesis was submitted for consideration on February 21, 2012.
I am particularly interested in demons (the psychopomp Vanth), stone sarcophagi, and how the afterlife was envisioned. I am also interested in anything to do with commemoration and memorialization.
