TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reyes Bertolín Cebrián
PY  - 2006
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Singing the Dead
T2  - A Model for Epic Evolution
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102137
N2  - 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.
KW  - Griechisch, Ancient Greek funeral lament, Heroic epic, Versepik, Totenklage (Motiv), Geschichte, Lyric poetry, Comparative epic
LA  - English
ER  -