Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition Book

	List of plates
	Series Editor's Foreword
	Foreword
	Introduction to the Second Edition
	Preface
Pt. I	Lament and ritual
1	Tradition and change in antiquity	4
	Wake, funeral procession and burial	4
	Offerings at the tomb	7
	Kinswomen and strangers	10
	The legislation on funeral rites and lamentation	14
2	From paganism to Christianity	24
	The struggle of the soul	25
	The wake	27
	The funeral procession	29
	Burial and after	31
3	Modern survivals	36
	The fight with Death	37
	Washing, dressing and lamentation	39
	From house to tomb	42
	Burial and after	44
Pt. II	Gods, cities and men
4	The ritual lament for gods and heroes	55
	Adonis, Linos and Hyakinthos	55
	Lityerses, Bormos and Mariandynos	58
	Lamentation in the hero cults and mysteries	61
	The Virgin's lament	62
	Leidinos and Zafeiris	78
5	The historical lament for the fall or destruction of cities	83
	The ancient lament for cities	83
	Byzantine tradition and the laments for the fall of Constantinople	85
	Modern historical laments	90
6	The classification of ancient and modern laments and songs to the dead	102
	The ritual lament of the women: threnos, goos, kommos	102
	The men's part: praise of the dead	104
	The growth of a new terminology	108
	The Song to Fate - origin of the modern moirologi?	110
	Moirologia for departure from home, change of religion, and marriage	118
	Moirologia for the dead	122
Pt. III	The common tradition
7	Antiphonal structure and antithetical thought	131
	Form and structure	131
	Antithetical style and antithetical thought	150
8	Conventions, themes and formulae	161
	Initial hesitation and questions	161
	The contrast: past and present	165
	The contrast: mourner and dead	171
	Wish and curse	178
	Praise and reproach	182
9	The allusive method	185
	Form	185
	Light	187
	Journey	189
	Support	193
	Spring and harvest	195
	The tree	198
	Water and thirst	202
	Notes	206
	Bibliography	243
	Abbreviations	257
	Bibliographical Supplement	261
	Glossary	273
	Indexes	275