Keyword

epitaph

Description: An epitaph is an inscription commemorating a deceased person, typically placed on a tomb or gravestone and studied in literary and historical contexts.

Primary topic: Classical Antiquity Studies (49%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1772

OpenAlex ID: keywords/epitaph

Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the Principate: Civilians, Soldiers and Slaves

1984 · Richard P. Saller, Brent D. Shaw · The Journal of Roman Studies · 488

The Civic World of Professional Associations in the Roman East

1997 · Onno M. van Nijf · BRILL eBooks · 459

Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs

1943 · Francis A. Sullivan, Richard Lattimore · The Classical World · 306

Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411–533

2003 · Andrew Gillett · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 283

Explaining the Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire: The Evidence of Epitaphs

1990 · Elizabeth A. Meyer · The Journal of Roman Studies · 270

The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C. - A.D. 235)

2001 · Sara Elise Phang · BRILL eBooks · 263

On the probable age structure of the Roman population

1966 · Keith Hopkins · Population Studies · 222

Freedmen and Freeborn in the Epitaphs of Imperial Rome

1961 · Lily Ross Taylor · The American Journal of Philology · 210

Reading Roman Friendship

2012 · Craig A. Williams · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 185

Freedmen and Decurions: Epitaphs and Social History in Imperial Italy

2005 · Henrik Mouritsen · The Journal of Roman Studies · 172

Themes in Greek and Latin epitaphs

1942 · Richmond Lattimore · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 160

Portrait of a priestess: women and ritual in ancient Greece

2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 159

Epigrammata Graeca ex lapidibus conlecta

1878 · Georg Kaibel · De Gruyter eBooks · 155

Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World

2002 · Mark Golden, Suzanne Dixon · Phoenix · 154

The Familia Urbana during the Early Empire: A Study of Columbaria Inscriptions

2005 · Kinuko Hasegawa · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 152

Gravestone and Epigram: Greek Memorials from the Archaic and Classical Period

1971 · John Griffiths Pedley, C. W. Clairmont · The Art Bulletin · 133

Dissing Elizabeth

1998 · Duke University Press eBooks · 125

Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE-700 CE)

1993 · Alan F. Segal, P. W. van der Horst · Journal of Biblical Literature · 116

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy

2014 · Nicolas Tackett · Harvard University Asia Center eBooks · 114

Non inter nota sepulcra: Catullus 101 and Roman Funerary Ritual

2000 · Andrew Feldherr · Classical Antiquity · 102

A Fourth-Century Latin Soldier's Epitaph at Nakolea

1977 · Thomas Drew-Bear · Harvard Studies in Classical Philology · 96

Sentimental collaborations: mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America

2001 · Choice Reviews Online · 93

The English Poetic Epitaph

2020 · Joshua Scodel · Cornell University Press eBooks · 88

Inscription, Absence and Memory: Epic and Early Epitaph

1992 · Ruth Scodel · Studi italiani di filología classica · 88

Death, Society and Culture: Inscriptions and Epitaphs in Gaul and Spain, AD 300-750

2003 · Mark A. Handley · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 85

Works count: 37,090

Citation count: 12,730