| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword / Margaret Alexiou -- Introduction / Ann Suter -- The city lament genre in the ancient Near East / John Jacobs -- The destroyed city in ancient "world history" : from Agade to Troy / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Mourning a city "empty of men" : stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament in Aeschylus' Persians / Mary R. Bachvarova and Dorota Dutsch -- Seven against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history / Geoffrey Bakewell -- Lament for fallen cities in early Roman drama : Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus / Seth A. Jeppesen -- City lament in Augustan epic : antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa / Alison Keith -- The fall of Troy in Seneca's Troades / Jo-Ann Shelton -- How to lament an Eternal City : the ambiguous fall of Rome / Catherine Conybeare -- Messengers, angels, and laments for the fall of Constantinople / Andromache Karanika -- A sudden longing : lamenting the lost city of Smyrna / Gail Holst-Warhaft |
| Summary |
A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Laments -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism
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Ruins in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Cities and towns in literature
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Laments
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Ruins in literature
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Klaagliederen.
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Steden.
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Herinneringen.
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Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bachvarova, Mary R., editor
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Dutsch, Dorota, editor
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Suter, Ann, editor
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| ISBN |
9781139424387 |
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1139424386 |
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9781316487464 |
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1316487466 |
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9781316485743 |
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1316485749 |
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