Leaving Words to Remember
Author: Katharine Derderian
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9047400453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.