The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis; Panagiotis Roilos; Margaret Alexiou

doi:10.5771/9781461645481

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2002
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-0757-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4548-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 293
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Plates No access
3. Series Editor's Foreword No access
4. Foreword No access
5. Introduction to the Second Edition No access
6. Preface No access
1. Problems and Method No access
2. 1. Wake, Funeral Procession and Burial No access
  2. Offerings at the Tomb No access
  3. Kinswomen and Strangers No access
  4. The Legislation on Funeral Rites and Lamentation No access
3. 1. The Struggle of the Soul No access
  2. The wake No access
  3. The Funeral Procession No access
  4. Burial and after No access
4. 1. The Fight with Death No access
  2. Washing, Dressing and Lamentation No access
  3. From House to tomb No access
  4. Burial and after No access
1. 1. Adonis, Linos and Hyakinthos No access
  2. Lityerses, Bormos and Mariandynos No access
  3. Lamentation in the Hero Cults and Mysteries No access
  4. The Virgin's Lament No access
  5. Leidinos and Zafeiris No access
2. 1. The Ancient Lament for Cities No access
  2. Byzantine Tradition and the Laments for the fall of Constantinople No access
  3. Modern Historical Laments No access
3. 1. The Ritual Lament of the Women: Thrênos, Góos, Kommós No access
  2. The Men's part: Praise of the dead No access
  3. The Growth of a new Terminology No access
  4. The song to fate—Origin of the Modern Moirológi? No access
  5. Moirológia for Departure from home, Change of Religion, and Marriage No access
  6. Moirológia for the dead No access
1. 1. Form and Structure No access
  2. Antithetical style and Antithetical thought No access
2. 1. Initial Hesitation and Questions No access
  2. The Contrast: Past and Present No access
  3. The Contrast: Mourner and dead No access
  4. Wish and Curse No access
  5. Praise and Reproach No access
3. 1. Form No access
  2. Light No access
  3. Journey No access
  4. Support No access
  5. Spring and Harvest No access
  6. The Tree No access
  7. Water and Thirst No access
Notes No access Pages 206 - 242
Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 256
Abbreviations No access Pages 257 - 260
Bibliographical Supplement No access Pages 261 - 272
Glossary No access Pages 273 - 274
Indexes No access Pages 275 - 293