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Margaret Alexiou's ""The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition"" was first published in 1974. It is a generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition, in which a variety of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive synthesis. This second edition has been revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos and includes an updated bibliography on ritual lament and death in Greek culture.

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The publication of this second edition by Rowman & Littlefield is very much to be welcomed. It has been sensitively revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos, who have reworked some passages and clarified the wording of others, but carefully maintained the original structure and argument of the book... Times Literary Supplement The publication of this second edition by Rowman & Littlefield is very much to be welcomed. It has been sensitively revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos, who have reworked some passages and clarified the wording of others, but carefully maintained the original structure and argument of the book. Times Literary Supplement

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Margaret Alexiou is Professor Emerita of Modern Greek Studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Panagiotis Roilos is Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is Junior Fellow in Classics at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

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