Leaving words to remember : Greek mourning and the advent of literacy /

Leaving words to remember : Greek mourning and the advent of literacy /

This volume examines the influence of literacy on the development of different genres of mourning in ancient Greece. The oral tradition of lament in the Homeric poems forms the point of departure for close readings of epigraphic material and written texts commemorating the dead in the archaic and cl...

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Main Author: Derderian, Katharine, 1970-

Format: eBook

Language: English
Ancient Greek

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 209.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Greek literature > History and criticism.
Written communication > Greece.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Literacy > Greece.
Death in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Greek literature.
Literacy.
Manners and customs.
Mourning customs.
Written communication.
Greece > Social life and customs.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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Call Number: PA3015.D43 D47 2001eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE UNSPEAKABLE LAMENT: THE HOMERIC ΓOOΣ AND THE HEROES
  • THE ARCHAIC EPIGRAM AND THE ADVENT OF WRITING
  • ΓRAMMATA ΛEΓONTA TAΔE: CASE STUDIES IN CLASSICAL MOURNING
  • THE EPITAPHIOS LOGOS AND MOURNING IN THE ATHENIAN POLIS
  • SOME CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh , D.M. Schenkeveld and P.H. Schrijvers.