The Ritual Lament in Greek TraditionMargaret 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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Problems and method | 3 |
From paganism to Christianity | 24 |
Modern survivals | 36 |
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Adonis Aeschylus Anakálema antiphonal antiquity antistrophe archaising Athens ballads burial Byzantine century B.C. Charos chorus Christ Christian Church classical Constantinople Cretan Crete cult dead death dialogue dirge Epitaphios Euripides fall of Constantinople fate formula funeral funerary inscriptions Giankas góos Greece Greek tradition grief Hades Homer hymns Iannina ibid imagery invocation Karpathos kommós kontákion Laog Leidinos literary Loukatos Maniot Migne modern laments moîra mother mourner mourning pagan Pasayanis Peek poetic poetry Politis LS popular tradition reference refrain Reiner RTG rites ritual lament Romanos singing songs soul sung survived Symeon Metaphrastes theme thrênos tion tomb tragedy verb vernacular Virgin's lament weeping women words Zoras ἀπὸ γὰρ γιὰ δὲ δὲν ἐγὼ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κι μὲ μὲν μὴ μοι μου νὰ νῦν οἱ ποῦ πῶς σὲ στὸ σὺ τὰ τὴ τὴν τῆς τί τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῶν ὡς