Margaret Alexiou

The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios; Roilos, Panagiotis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. This is the only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis. Its interdisciplinary orientation and broad scope have rendered The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition an indispensable reference work for classicists, byzantinists, neohellenists, folklorists, and anthropologists. Now a second edition, revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos, has been made available. This new edition also includes a valuable up-to-date bibliography on ritual lament and death in Greek culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881864743
• Artikelnr.: 75391404

Autorenporträt

Margaret Alexiou is professor emerita of modern Greek studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Panagiotis Roilos is assistant professor of modern Greek studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is junior fellow in classics at te Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Lament and Ritual
Chapter 2 Tradition and change in antiquity
Chapter 3 From paganism to Christianity
Chapter 4 Modern survivals
Part 5 Gods, cities, and men
Chapter 6 The ritual lament for gods and heroes
Chapter 7 The historical lament for the fall or destruction of cities
Chapter 8 The classification of ancient and modern laments and songs to the
dead
Part 9 The common tradition
Chapter 10 Antiphonal structure and antithetical thought
Chapter 11 Conventions, themes, and formulae
Chapter 12 The allusive method