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Tomb raiders and treasure hunters
The Mediterranean in Antiquity – a short review
Life in Classical times
Burial customs simplified
Coffins and sarcophagi in many shapes and sizes
Life after death
Burying the dead
The Roman way of death
Houses for the dead
Remembering the dead
Cultural crossroads – the Roman provinces of Syria and Judaea 
A Roman Province
Decapolis and Palmyra – cosmopolitain cities of the East
The Jews
The first Christians
Martyrs and relics
Forgeries

Selected sources
People, places and events
Mythology
Glossary

QUOTATIONS AND SELECTED SOURCES

Epicurus,  Letter to Menoikeus

Homer, Odyssey 24.10-14)

Hisham Ibn-al-Kalb, Kitab al-Asham, Al-Qalis 44-55

Ovid , Amores  14 - 15

Ovid , Fasti, II: February 21

Ovid , Fasti V: May 9

Petronium, Satyricon 10, 65

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 2, 210

Polybius, Histories 6, 53

Suetonius, Caligula 59

Rudolfo Lanciani, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, 1898, 64-65)

Pirro Ligorio, Delle antichità di Roma, 1554

Alf Torp, see Alf Sommerfelt, ”En norsk språkforsker”, Samtiden 71

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