University of Groningen
From Polis to Colonia
Dijkstra, Tamara
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10.33612/diss.107805288
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2019
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Dijkstra, T. (2019). From Polis to Colonia: Death, Burial, and Society in Hellenistic and Roman Patras.
University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.107805288
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Propositions accompanying the thesis
FROM POLIS TO COLONIA
Death, Burial, and Society in Hellenistic and Roman Patras
1. Sociocultural change is an unavoidable result of culture contact (whatever form it takes).
2. The impact of culture contact on societies and individuals is best assessed through small-scale analyses that are subsequently subjected to a comparative approach.
3. The way people deal with their dead is dependent on and reflects social norms, cultural traditions, personal preferences, and the circumstances in which death and burial took place.
4. Similar to today’s Facebook and Instagram, the cemeteries of the Graeco-Roman world offered an arena for the display of a carefully curated image of an individual.
5. People should be less concerned with their image and more with the content of their character.
6. Archaeological remains of mortuary behaviour can only be used to reconstruct Graeco-Roman societies if they are approached from a holistic, contextual perspective and are studied in combination with literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and other archaeological evidence.
7. Legacy data, including evidence from rescue excavations and material stored in Greek apothikes, are a rich source of information that deserves more scholarly attention than they are usually given.
8. A grave without artefacts is not without value.
9. Mental health problems should be acknowledged as a major concern that has significant effects not only on the person affected, but also on their
caregivers and others in their surroundings.
10. The only thing better than an ancient Greek grave is a table full of Greek food.
