Lament:studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 288 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
Publication Frequency: | Also issued online. |
ISBN: |
9780195336924 (cloth) 0195336925 |
Index Number: | I500 |
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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. |