Background
Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall (1859–1939). Her brother Arnold J. Toynbee was a notable universal historian.
(Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's s...)
Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem-Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
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(An account for English readers of the excavations under S...)
An account for English readers of the excavations under St. Peter's in the summer of 1952 is accompanied by plans and drawings of those excavations.
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anthropologist archaeologist art historian university professor
Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall (1859–1939). Her brother Arnold J. Toynbee was a notable universal historian.
"In the mid-twentieth century she was the leading British scholar in Roman artistic studies and one of the recognized authorities in this field in the world."
She was tutor in classics at Street Hugh"s College, Oxford (1921-1924), lecturer in classics at Reading University, and from 1927 fellow and director of studies in classics at Newnham. In 1931 she was appointed lecturer in classics at Cambridge before becoming the fourth Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology (1951–1962).
(An account for English readers of the excavations under S...)
(Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's s...)
German Archaeological Institute. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.