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The ritual lament in greek tradition
Book: English. Bibliographic reference- Author(s)
- Alexiou, Margaret
- Title
- The ritual lament in greek tradition / Margaret Alexiou ; revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
- Subjects
- Moiroloi [Μοιρολόι] ; Negar-kantuak / Laments ; Greece
- Edition
- 2
- Other authors
- Roilos, Panagiotis ; Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
- Physical description
- 324 or.
- Type of material
- Book
- ISBN / ISSN
- 978-0-7425-0757-9
- Notes
- 1. edizioa: Cambridge University Press, 1974
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.