Lament : studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond
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
Lyric poetry
1 online resource (288 pages)
9780199714278, 9781281162427, 9786611162429, 9781435617988, 0199714274, 1281162426, 6611162429, 1435617983
191027958
Sumerian Gala priests and eastern Mediterranean returning Gods: tragic lamentation in cross-cultural perspective / Mary R. Bachvarova
"When You Go to the Meadow ... ": the lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite Sallis Wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford
Mycenaean memory and bronze age lament / Brendan Burke
Reading the laments of the Iliad / Christine Perkell
Keens from the absent chorus: Troy to Ulster / Richard P. Martin
Death becomes her: gender and Athenian death ritual / Karen Stears
Male lament in Greek tragedy / Ann Suter
Greek comedy's parody of lament / Andromache Karanika
Lament and hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff / Olga Levaniouk
Lament in Lucan's Bellum Civile / Alison Keith
Nenia: gender, genre, and lament in Ancient Rome / Dorota Dutsch
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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