The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition - Margaret Alexiou, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Παναγιώτης Α Ροϊλός - Google Books

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Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. This is the only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts…