It was important for the Roman elite to be remembered after their death, and to show off their status, ancestry and wealth. Burial also symbolically transferred the dead to the world beyond and showed proper humility for the gods. The monumental tomb became the new home of the family’s deceased ones, which you could visit to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
This video is part of the MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" which was produced by the Strategic Partnership "Ancient Cities", a cooperation between the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, the University of Aarhus, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athen, the University of Bergen, the Open University of the Netherlands and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. The University of Pennsylvania is an external partner.
The project was co-funded by the ERASMUS+ grant programme of the European Union under grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003537. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.
The translation into Turkish was produced in cooperation between the German Archaeological Institute Istanbul, the Archaeological Department of Celal Bayar Üniversitesi (Manisa) and the Institute of Classical Studies of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Coordination: Felix Pirson, Güler Ates, Stefan Feuser. Translations: Burcu Akan, Güler Ateş, Hülya Çatak, Serkan Demir, Mine Özkılıç, Devrim Sönmez, Seçil Tezer Altay.
