Leaving words to remember : : Greek mourning and the advent of literacy / / by Katharine Derderian.

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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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 209
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Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 209.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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