Death, Burial & the Afterlife in Ancient Rome-Dr Rietveld- Ipso Facto-Nov 4

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What can we learn about Ancient Rome from their Funerary practices? Join us at Ipso Facto on November 4, 8 p.m. and learn more!

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Join us at Ipso Facto on November 4, 8 p.m. for Dr. James Rietveld&#x27;s lecture &quot;Death, Burial and the Afterlife in Ancient Rome.&quot;Pay What You Wish Donation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/189265216357Much can be gleaned from the material remains that a culture produces, mirroring the social conditions of a society.For instance, Roman gladiator games began as funeral gifts for the deceased members of high status families.The Ancient Romans engaged in often extravagent and detailed funerary customs, interring their dead outside the city walls in a burial belt or ritual boundary, which came to encircle the city. Not only monumental in life, but also in death, the wealthy were buried in elaborate tombs prominently along the roads of the empire, while the less prosperous had their ashes in urns interred on a niche in a vast underground columbaria complex or their bodies placed along a long catacomb tunnel. Roman views of death and the afterlife were a complicated affair, with elaborate funeral rituals, feeding the dead ceremonies, and magic to prevent ritual pollution. Meticulously-worded wills provided for the proper upkeep of the tombs as well as continued observance of prescribed rituals.Curses were very entrenched in Roman life, and it was customary to place inscriptions on tombs warning of the consequences of corpse desecration or grave robbing. Roman law declared graves to be inviolable with penalties for infractors.While those in service of imperial or aristocratic families were often interred together in the tombs of their patrons, organizations sprang up as burial societies to purchase land communally for building columbaria, for the benefit of the less prosperous or for slaves, whose manner demonstrated respect for each one&#x27;s life&#x27;s accomplishments, no matter the station. It was believed that without benefit of funeral rites, vagrant spirits of the dead, would haunt the living. Subsequent generations were tasked with bringing offerings of food or drink to the deceased and making special observances during Roman festivals.Join us at Ipso Facto with our guide, Dr. James Rietveld, who has explored the catacombs of Rome in person, descending into the Roman underworld, exposing its ghosts, and uncovering some of the secrets long buried!Dr. Rietveld is a professor at California State University, Fullerton, CA and Cal Poly, Pomona, CA of History, Anthropology and Religion. His specialties include the History of Christianity in the Early, Medieval and Byzantine periods, New Testament Studies and Greco-Roman religions. He received his PHD from Claremont School of Religion and is the author of two books.This will be a hybrid event welcoming both in-person and virtual attendees.In- person attendance will be indoors, therefore proof of vaccination and face masks will be required.Address: 517 N. Harbor Bl. Fullerton CA 92832

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