Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 320
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-0-7425-0756-2 • Hardback • April 2002 • $150.00 • (£115.00)
Margaret Alexiou is professor emerita of modern Greek studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Panagiotis Roilos is assistant professor of modern Greek studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is junior fellow in classics at te Society of Fellows, Harvard University.
Part 1 Lament and Ritual
Chapter 2 Tradition and change in antiquity
Chapter 3 From paganism to Christianity
Chapter 4 Modern survivals
Part 5 Gods, cities, and men
Chapter 6 The ritual lament for gods and heroes
Chapter 7 The historical lament for the fall or destruction of cities
Chapter 8 The classification of ancient and modern laments and songs to the dead
Part 9 The common tradition
Chapter 10 Antiphonal structure and antithetical thought
Chapter 11 Conventions, themes, and formulae
Chapter 12 The allusive method
The publication of this second edition by Rowman & Littlefield is very much to be welcomed. It has been sensitively revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos, who have reworked some passages and clarified the wording of others, but carefully maintained the original structure and argument of the book....
— Times Literary Supplement
The publication of this second edition by Rowman & Littlefield is very much to be welcomed. It has been sensitively revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos, who have reworked some passages and clarified the wording of others, but carefully maintained the original structure and argument of the book.
— Times Literary Supplement