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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... Parody of Lament 181 Andromache Karanika 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff 200 Olga Levaniouk 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm Civile 233 Alison Keith 12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome 258 Dorota Dutsch Index ...
... Parody of Lament 181 Andromache Karanika 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff 200 Olga Levaniouk 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm Civile 233 Alison Keith 12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome 258 Dorota Dutsch Index ...
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... parody of lament. A study of how the lament in Erinna's Distaff combines with wedding song completes the Greek materials. Last, two chapters are devoted to Roman lament: one analyzes represented lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile; the ...
... parody of lament. A study of how the lament in Erinna's Distaff combines with wedding song completes the Greek materials. Last, two chapters are devoted to Roman lament: one analyzes represented lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile; the ...
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... parody in fifth-century b.c.e. comedy. Focusing on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, she shows how he uses the forms of ritual lament as part of his parodies of the Telephus, the Helen, and the Andromeda. These parodies are part of what ...
... parody in fifth-century b.c.e. comedy. Focusing on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, she shows how he uses the forms of ritual lament as part of his parodies of the Telephus, the Helen, and the Andromeda. These parodies are part of what ...
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... parodies of lament in the play renegotiate the boundaries both of comedy's license and of tragedy's politics and thus the boundary between comedy and tragedy themselves. Levaniouk argues in chapter 10 that Erinna's Distaff, long ...
... parodies of lament in the play renegotiate the boundaries both of comedy's license and of tragedy's politics and thus the boundary between comedy and tragedy themselves. Levaniouk argues in chapter 10 that Erinna's Distaff, long ...
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... parodies, the ''structural and stylistic features of the two poems fit the ritual function and the performance context'' Dutsch has elaborated for a ritual nenia. Her investigation of the nenia's cultural meanings shows it to be a ...
... parodies, the ''structural and stylistic features of the two poems fit the ritual function and the performance context'' Dutsch has elaborated for a ritual nenia. Her investigation of the nenia's cultural meanings shows it to be a ...
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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