A Model for Epic Evolution Cebrian, Reyes Bertolin creator author text xx 2006 monographic eng

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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. Reyes Bertolin Cebrian Ancient and Classical Poetry Literary Criticism Epic poetry, Greek Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Greece History and criticism Greek Epic poetry 881.01093548 CEB 9780820481654 0820481653 InACL 260929 20260929164339.0 219509 eng