The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexiou, Margaret.

Contributor:

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios.

Roilos, Panagiotis.

Series:

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Greece.

Laments--Greece--History and criticism.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--History and criticism--Greece.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Laments--Greece.

Laments.

Local Subjects:

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Greece.

Laments--Greece--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. N

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Series Editor's Foreword; Foreword; Introduction to the Second Edition; Preface; Part I: Lament and Ritual; Problems and Method; 1. Tradition and Change in Antiquity; Wake, Funeral Procession and Burial; Offerings at the Tomb; Kinswomen and Strangers; The Legislation on Funeral Rites and Lamentation; 2. From Paganism to Christianity; The Struggle of the Soul; The wake; The Funeral Procession; Burial and after; 3. Modem Survivals; The Fight with Death; Washing, Dressing and Lamentation; From House to tomb

Burial and afterPart II: Gods, Cities and Men; 4. The Ritual Lament for Gods and Heroes; Adonis, Linos and Hyakinthos; Lityerses, Bormos and Mariandynos; Lamentation in the Hero Cults and Mysteries; The Virgin's Lament; Leidinos and Zafeiris; 5. The Historical Lament for the fall or Destruction of Cities; The Ancient Lament for Cities; Byzantine Tradition and the Laments for the fall of Constantinople; Modern Historical Laments; 6. The Classification of Ancient and Modern Laments and Songs to the dead; The Ritual Lament of the Women: Thrênos, Góos, Kommós; The Men's part: Praise of the dead

The Growth of a new TerminologyThe song to fate-Origin of the Modern Moirológi?; Moirológia for Departure from home, Change of Religion, and Marriage; Moirológia for the dead; Part III: The Common Tradition; 7. Antiphonal Structure and Antithetical Thought; Form and Structure; Antithetical style and Antithetical thought; 8. Conventions, Themes and Formulae; Initial Hesitation and Questions; The Contrast: Past and Present; The Contrast: Mourner and dead; Wish and Curse; Praise and Reproach; 9. The Allusive Method; Form; Light; Journey; Support; Spring and Harvest; The Tree; Water and Thirst

NotesBibliography; Abbreviations; Bibliographical Supplement; Glossary; Indexes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4616-4548-4

OCLC:

862049673