CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Ivanisevic, Dora |
|---|---|
| Title | Epitaphic Culture ans Social History in Late Antique Salona (ca. 250 - 600 C.E.) |
| Summary | The two principal objectives of this dissertation are to examine the related topics of the late antique epitaphic culture of Salona, the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, and of the social profile of the “epitaphic population.” The thesis focuses on 188 sufficiently preserved Latin and Greek epitaphs datable to from the mid-third to the beginning of the seventh centuries. The first part of the thesis critically surveys the dominant models that aim to explain the epigraphic culture in the Roman empire, and questions the concept of the “Christian epigraphy” and the presumed motivation for the revival of the “Christian” epitaphic output in late Roman period. It explores the epitaphic culture of late antique Salona in the context of the Latin West. The second part of the thesis re-examines the prevalent onomastic method for the assessment of the socio-legal status of the “epitaphic population” that heavily hinges on one’s cognomen. It explores the onomastic indicators of social status during the early and high empire, and the changes in the name-forms that were evolving over the high- and late-imperial period. It seeks to elucidate the fluidity and diachronic changes of the Roman name system, and its determinative relation to both epigraphic context, and socio-legal and economic status. It furthermore analyses the biographical pieces of information as recorded in epitaphs in order to assess what social groups set up stone funerary monuments in late antique Salona. |
| Supervisor | Menze, Volker |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/ivanisevic_dora.pdf |
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