Singing the Dead : A Model for Epic Evolution
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820481653
ISBN-13
9780820481654
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 2006
Print length
172 Pages
Weight
374 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 25.70 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalSociety & culture: general
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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.
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