Lament : studies in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond /
Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the fabric of society in different times and places. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the fabric of society in different times and places. This collection of essays offers the first ever comparative approach to ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of lament. Beginning with the Sumerian and Hittite traditions, the volume moves on to examine Bronze Age iconographic representations of lamentation, Homeric lament, depictions of. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199714278 0199714274 1281162426 9781281162427 9786611162429 6611162429 1435617983 9781435617988 |