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Singing the Dead : A Model for Epic Evolution /
Cebrian, Reyes Bertolin
Singing the Dead : A Model for Epic Evolution / Reyes Bertolin Cebrian - 171 pages
"This book outlines the evolution of Greek heroic epic from funeral laments and creates a model for epic evolution using Greek, other Indo-European, and non-Indo-European materials. Singing the Dead conceives the epic as a post-Mycenean phenomenon associated with the first migrations away from the ancestors' tombs to the Ionian coast. Physical separation from the tombs impelled the development of narration concerning the ancestors and the rite at the tomb was substituted by stories that eventually became epic."--BOOK JACKET.
9780820481654 0820481653
Ancient and Classical
Poetry
Literary Criticism
Epic poetry, Greek
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Greece
History and criticism
Greek Epic poetry
881.01093548 / CEB
Singing the Dead : A Model for Epic Evolution / Reyes Bertolin Cebrian - 171 pages
"This book outlines the evolution of Greek heroic epic from funeral laments and creates a model for epic evolution using Greek, other Indo-European, and non-Indo-European materials. Singing the Dead conceives the epic as a post-Mycenean phenomenon associated with the first migrations away from the ancestors' tombs to the Ionian coast. Physical separation from the tombs impelled the development of narration concerning the ancestors and the rite at the tomb was substituted by stories that eventually became epic."--BOOK JACKET.
9780820481654 0820481653
Ancient and Classical
Poetry
Literary Criticism
Epic poetry, Greek
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Greece
History and criticism
Greek Epic poetry
881.01093548 / CEB