Ritual Lament In Greek Tradition
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...
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List of platesSeries Editor's ForewordForewordIntroduction to the Second EditionPrefacePt. ILament and ritual1Tradition and change in antiquity4Wake, funeral procession and burial4Offerings at the tomb7Kinswomen and strangers10The legislation on funeral rites and lamentation142From paganism to Christianity24The struggle of the soul25The wake27The funeral procession29Burial and after313Modern survivals36The fight with Death37Washing, dressing and lamentation39From house to tomb42Burial and after44Pt. IIGods, cities and men4The ritual lament for gods and heroes55Adonis, Linos and Hyakinthos55Lityerses, Bormos and Mariandynos58Lamentation in the hero cults and mysteries61The Virgin's lament62Leidinos and Zafeiris785The historical lament for the fall or destruction of cities83The ancient lament for cities83Byzantine tradition and the laments for the fall of Constantinople85Modern historical laments906The classification of ancient and modern laments and songs to the dead102The ritual lament of the women: threnos, goos, kommos102The men's part: praise of the dead104The growth of a new terminology108The Song to Fate - origin of the modern moirologi?110Moirologia for departure from home, change of religion, and marriage118Moirologia for the dead122Pt. IIIThe common tradition7Antiphonal structure and antithetical thought131Form and structure131Antithetical style and antithetical thought1508Conventions, themes and formulae161Initial hesitation and questions161The contrast: past and present165The contrast: mourner and dead171Wish and curse178Praise and reproach1829The allusive method185Form185Light187Journey189Support193Spring and harvest195The tree198Water and thirst202Notes206Bibliography243Abbreviations257Bibliographical Supplement261Glossary273Indexes275
\ Times Literary SupplementThe 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.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsAlexiou's work, originally published in 1974 by the Cambridge U. Press, continues to be recognized as the only general and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its sociocultural contexts throughout Greek tradition. For the second edition, Yaromanolakis and Roilos (both classics, Harvard U.) have made some revisions to Alexiou's text while still preserving its original scholarly and ideological framework. The bulk of their contribution comes in the form of an extensive, up-to-date bibliographical supplement appended to the end of the first edition, listing resources from 1974 to 1998 on the ancient, medieval, and modern Greek lament, and on comparative, ethnographic, and ethnomusicological material. For classicists, Byzantinists, neo-Hellenists, folklorists, and anthropologists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
