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Lament : studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond / edited by Ann Suter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: x, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195336924
  • 0195336925
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1389 .L36 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PN1389.L36 2008 1 Available 33710001113385

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.