The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) - Hardcover

Alexiou, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742507564 ISBN 13: 9780742507562

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

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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Review:

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

Synopsis:

Margaret Alexiou's "The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition" was first published in 1974. It is a generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition, in which a variety of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive synthesis. This second edition has been revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos and includes an updated bibliography on ritual lament and death in Greek culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742507564
• ISBN 13: 9780742507562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Yatromanolakis Dimitrios, Roilos Panagiotis