Lament

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-533692-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the fabric of society in different times and places. This collection of essays offers the first ever comparative approach to ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of lament. Beginning with the Sumerian and Hittite traditions, the volume moves on to examine Bronze Age iconographic representations of lamentation, Homeric lament, depictions of lament in Greek tragedy and parodic comedy, and finally lament in ancient Rome. The list of contributors includes such noted scholars as Richard Martin, Ian Rutherford, and Alison Keith.

Lament comes at a time when the conclusions of the first wave of the study of lament-especially Greek lament-have received widespread acceptance, including the notions that lament is a female genre; that men risked feminization if they lamented; that there were efforts to control female lamentation; and that a lamenting woman was a powerful figure and a threat to the orderly functioning of the male public sphere. Lament revisits these issues by reexamining what kinds of functions the term lament can include, and by expanding the study of lament to other genres of literature, cultures, and periods in the ancient world. The studies included here reflect the variety of critical issues raised over the past 25 years, and as such, provide an overview of the history of critical thinking on the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suter

Suter, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction - Ann Suter

- 2: Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-cultural Perspective Bachvarova

- 3: "When you go to the meadow.": The Lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite "Sallais Wastais" Ritual Rutherford

- 4: Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament Burke

- 5: Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster Martin

- 6: Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 Perkell

- 7: Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual Stears

- 8: Male Lament in Greek Tragedy Suter

- 9: Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament Karanika

- 10: Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff Levaniouk

- 11: Lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile Keith

- 12: Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome Dutsch

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Suter is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode Island and author of The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.