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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: fall of cities in the Mediterranean
    sub title: commemoration in literature, folk-song, and liturgy
  name:
    name part: Bachvarova, Mary R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Dutsch, Dorota M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Suter, Ann
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 277 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 reworkings 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.
  table of 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.
  note: edited by Mary R. Bachvarova, Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: mm-----
  subject:
    topic: Laments
    geographic: Mediterranean Region
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Ruins in literature
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns in literature
  classification: PN1389 .F36 2016
  classification: 809/.933582
  identifier: 9781107031968
  identifier: 1107031966
  identifier: 2015024872
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150807
    record change date: 20160405153410.0
    record identifier: in00003607179