TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cebrian,Reyes Bertolin
TI  - Singing the Dead: A Model for Epic Evolution 
SN  - 9780820481654
U1  - 881.01093548 23
PY  - 2006///
PB  - Peter Lang Publishing
KW  - Ancient and Classical
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
KW  - Greece
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Greek Epic poetry
N2  - "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
ER  -