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050 00 $aPN1389$b.F36 2016
082 00 $a809/.933582$223
245 04 $aThe fall of cities in the Mediterranean :$bcommemoration in literature, folk-song, and liturgy /$cedited by Mary R. Bachvarova, Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2016.
300 $axvii, 277 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contain responses to the narrative structures and motifs in which the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities resided, repurposing them or even denying their meaning or silencing them. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / 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.
650 0 $aLaments$zMediterranean Region$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRuins in literature.
650 0 $aCities and towns in literature.
650 7 $aCities and towns in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00861865
650 7 $aLaments.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00991065
650 7 $aRuins in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01101206
651 7 $aMediterranean Region.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239752
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aBachvarova, Mary R.,$eeditor.
700 1 $aDutsch, Dorota,$eeditor.
700 1 $aSuter, Ann,$d1938-$eeditor.
852 00 $buts$hPN1389$i.F36 2016