Singing the Dead: A Model for Epic Evolution - Couverture rigide

Bertolín Cebrián, Reyes

 
9780820481654: Singing the Dead: A Model for Epic Evolution

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

The Author : Reyes Bertolín Cebrián studied classical philology at the University of Valencia (Spain) and received her Ph.D. in Indo-European linguistics from the University of Freiburg (Germany). Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary (Canada).

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