Leaving Words to Remember

Leaving Words to Remember PDF Author: Katharine Derderian
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Book Description
This volume examines the influence of literacy on the development of mourning in ancient Greece. Considered against the oral tradition of Homeric lament, archaic and classical memorials are shown to evolve into an increasingly civic and historical medium of memory.