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 ...
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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.
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Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 0521202264. Underlining in pencil to a few pages. Else Minor shelfwear to book. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has very light chipping a couple of tears. Dustjacket is protected in mylar.; A study of the Greek tradition in the oral and literary lament and in the rituals associated with it. Traces the history of the lement as a poetic form from Homeric through the classical and Byzantine periods to modern times, where it remains part of a living folk tradition.; 288 pages.
