Singing the Dead : A Model for Epic Evolution

by Reyes Bertolin Cebrian

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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 & medieval Society & 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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