Lament : studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond /
Suter, Ann,1938-
New York : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sumerian Gala priests and eastern Mediterranean returning Gods: tragic lamentation in cross-cultural perspective / Mary R. Bachvarova -- "When You Go to the Meadow...": the lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite Sallis Wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford -- Mycenaean memory and bronze age lament / Brendan Burke -- Reading the laments of the Iliad / Christine Perkell -- Keens from the absent chorus: Troy to Ulster / Richard P. Martin -- Death becomes her: gender and Athenian death ritual / Karen Stears -- Male lament in Greek tragedy / Ann Suter -- Greek comedy's parody of lament / Andromache Karanika -- Lament and hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff / Olga Levaniouk -- Lament in Lucan's Bellum Civile / Alison Keith -- Nenia: gender, genre, and lament in Ancient Rome / Dorota Dutsch.
Laments