The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition 2nd Edition by Margaret Alexiou, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Panagiotis Roilos ISBN 0742507564 978-0742507562

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ISBN 10:  0742507564 

ISBN 13: 978-0742507562

Author: Margaret Alexiou, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Panagiotis Roilos 

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.

 

Table of contents: 

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. Modern Survivals
    - The Fight with Death
    - Washing, Dressing and Lamentation
    - From House to Tomb
    - Burial and After

Part 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: Threnos, Goos, Kommos
    - The Men’s Part: Praise of the Dead
    - The Growth of a New Terminology
    - The Song to Fate – Origin of the Modern Moirologi?
    - Moirologia for Departure from Home, Change of Religion, and Marriage
    - Moirologia 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

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