Lament:studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Suter Ann, 1938-
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: x, 288 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
Publication Frequency: Also issued online.
ISBN: 9780195336924 (cloth)
0195336925
Index Number: I500
CLC: I500.6
K125
K126
Call Number: K125/L228
Contents: 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.