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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suter, Ann, 1938- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laments--History and criticism.

Laments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; 1. Introduction; 2. Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-Cultural Perspective; 3. ''When You Go to the Meadow. . . '': The Lament of the Taptara-Women in the Hittite Sallis Wastais Ritual; 4. Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament; 5. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24; 6. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster; 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual; 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy; 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament; 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff

11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm Civile12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-045068-1

0-19-770476-X

1-281-16242-6

9786611162429

0-19-971427-4

1-4356-1798-3

OCLC:

437093772