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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 Ann Suter 2. Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-cultural Perspective 22 Mary Bachvarova 3. "When you go to the meadow. . .": The Lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite "Sallais Wastais" Ritual 80 Ian Rutherford 4. Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament 110 R. Brendan Burke 5. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster 137 Richard P. Martin 6. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 175 Christine Perkell 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual 219 Karen Stears 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy 245 Ann Suter 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament 289 Andromache Karanika 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff 324 Olga Levaniouk 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile 382 Alison Keith 12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome 426 Dorota Dutsch
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Laments -- History and criticism.