03179nam 2200685Ia 450 991082598540332120200520144314.00-19-045068-10-19-770476-X1-281-16242-697866111624290-19-971427-41-4356-1798-310.1093/oso/9780195336924.001.0001(CKB)1000000000482302(EBL)415474(OCoLC)437093772(SSID)ssj0000188514(PQKBManifestationID)11179583(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188514(PQKBWorkID)10165408(PQKB)11628046(Au-PeEL)EBL415474(CaPaEBR)ebr10212065(CaONFJC)MIL116242(OCoLC)1406784682(StDuBDS)9780197704769(MiAaPQ)EBC415474(EXLCZ)99100000000048230220070601d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLament studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond /edited by Ann Suter1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (301 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2008.0-19-533692-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Distaff11. Lament in Lucan's Bellvm Civile12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome; INDEXLament 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 Oxford scholarship online.Lyric poetryLamentsHistory and criticismLyric poetry.LamentsHistory and criticism.809/.93353Suter Ann1938-451802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825985403321Lament3983885UNINA