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

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

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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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Derderian, Katharine, 1970-
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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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.

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