Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and BeyondAnn Suter Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the fabric of society in different times and places. This collection of essays offers the first ever comparative approach to ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of lament. Beginning with the Sumerian and Hittite traditions, the volume moves on to examine Bronze Age iconographic representations of lamentation, Homeric lament, depictions of lament in Greek tragedy and parodic comedy, and finally lament in ancient Rome. The list of contributors includes such noted scholars as Richard Martin, Ian Rutherford, and Alison Keith. Lament comes at a time when the conclusions of the first wave of the study of lament-especially Greek lament-have received widespread acceptance, including the notions that lament is a female genre; that men risked feminization if they lamented; that there were efforts to control female lamentation; and that a lamenting woman was a powerful figure and a threat to the orderly functioning of the male public sphere. Lament revisits these issues by reexamining what kinds of functions the term lament can include, and by expanding the study of lament to other genres of literature, cultures, and periods in the ancient world. The studies included here reflect the variety of critical issues raised over the past 25 years, and as such, provide an overview of the history of critical thinking on the subject. |
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... Lament 70 Brendan Burke 5. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 93 Christine Perkell 6. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster 118 Richard P. Martin 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual 139 ix CONTENTS.
... Lament 70 Brendan Burke 5. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 93 Christine Perkell 6. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster 118 Richard P. Martin 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual 139 ix CONTENTS.
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... Athenian Death Ritual 139 Karen Stears 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy 156 Ann Suter 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament 181 Andromache Karanika 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff 200 Olga Levaniouk 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm ...
... Athenian Death Ritual 139 Karen Stears 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy 156 Ann Suter 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament 181 Andromache Karanika 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff 200 Olga Levaniouk 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm ...
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... Athenian funeral ritual and describes the activities performed by women at the time of death, at the funeral, and throughout the mourning period. She argues against accounts that see women's polluted condition in death ritual as ...
... Athenian funeral ritual and describes the activities performed by women at the time of death, at the funeral, and throughout the mourning period. She argues against accounts that see women's polluted condition in death ritual as ...
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... Athenian tragedy also, men dressed as females and lamented. They also lamented in the character of males, and evidence exists to suggest that part of the origin of male lament in Greek tragedy was in male lament in real life (Suter) ...
... Athenian tragedy also, men dressed as females and lamented. They also lamented in the character of males, and evidence exists to suggest that part of the origin of male lament in Greek tragedy was in male lament in real life (Suter) ...
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... Athenian Drama. Princeton. Monsacre ́, He ́le`ne. 1984. Les larmes d'Achille: Le he ́ros, la femme, et la souffrance dans la poe ́sie d'Home`re. Paris. Murnaghan, Sheila. 1999. The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic. In Epic Traditions in ...
... Athenian Drama. Princeton. Monsacre ́, He ́le`ne. 1984. Les larmes d'Achille: Le he ́ros, la femme, et la souffrance dans la poe ́sie d'Home`re. Paris. Murnaghan, Sheila. 1999. The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic. In Epic Traditions in ...
Contents
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The Lament of the TaptaraWomen in the Hittite Sallis Wastais Ritual | 53 |
4 Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament | 70 |
5 Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 | 93 |
Troy to Ulster | 118 |
Gender and Athenian Death Ritual | 139 |
8 Male Lament in Greek Tragedy | 156 |
9 Greek Comedys Parody of Lament | 181 |
10 Lament and Hymenaios in Erinnas Distaff | 200 |
11 Lament in Lucans Bellvm Civile | 233 |
Gender Genre and Lament in Ancient Rome | 258 |
INDEX | 281 |
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