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245 04 The fall of cities in the Mediterranean :|bcommemoration 
       in literature, folk-song, and liturgy /|cedited by Mary R.
       Bachvarova, Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter 
264  1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ;|aNew York, NY :|bCambridge 
       University Press,|c2016 
300    xvii, 277 pages :|bmaps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Foreword / Margaret Alexiou -- Introduction / Ann Suter --
       The city lament genre in the Ancient Near East / John 
       Jacobs -- The destroyed city in ancient "world history": 
       from Agade to Troy / Mary R. Bachvarova -- Mourning a city
       "empty of men": stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament 
       in Aeschylus' Persians / Mary R. Bachvarova and Dorota 
       Dutsch --  Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and 
       Athenian history / Geoffrey Bakewell -- Lament for fallen 
       cities in Early Roman drama: Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus 
       / Seth A. Jeppesen -- City lament in Augustan epic: 
       antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa / Alison Keith -
       - The fall of Troy in Seneca's Troades / Jo-Ann Shelton --
       How to lament an eternal city: the ambiguous fall of Rome 
       / Catherine Conybeare -- Messengers, angels, and laments 
       for the fall of Constantinople / Andromache Karanika -- "A
       sudden longing": remembering the lost city of Smyrna / 
       Gail Holst-Warhaft 
520    "A body of theory has developed about the role and 
       function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural 
       identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich 
       Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for 
       fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal 
       trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of 
       the fallen city in folk song and a variety of literary 
       genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by 
       diverse agendas, and contain responses to the narrative 
       structures and motifs in which the meaning of memory-
       making about fallen cities resided, repurposing them or 
       even denying their meaning or silencing them. Opening a 
       new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of 
       city lament, this book examines references to, or re-
       workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating
       fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater 
       emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors"--
       |cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Laments|zMediterranean Region|xHistory and criticism 
650  0 Ruins in literature 
650  0 Cities and towns in literature 
700 1  Bachvarova, Mary R.,|eeditor 
700 1  Dutsch, Dorota,|eeditor 
700 1  Suter, Ann,|d1938-|eeditor