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 contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. 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.

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Information

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2016

ISBN

9781316484883

Topic

History

Subtopic

Ancient History

Index

History

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Map of the Mediterranean region
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The city lament genre in the ancient Near East
Chapter 3 The destroyed city in ancient ‘‘world history’’: from Agade to Troy
Chapter 4 Mourning a city ‘‘empty of men’’: stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament in Aeschylus’ Persians
Chapter 5 Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history
Chapter 6 Lament for fallen cities in early Roman drama: Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus
Chapter 7 City lament in Augustan epic: antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa
Chapter 8 The fall of Troy in Seneca’s Troades
Chapter 9 How to lament an eternal city: the ambiguous fall of Rome
Chapter 10 Messengers, angels, and laments for the fall of Constantinople
Chapter 11 ‘‘A sudden longing’’: lamenting the lost city of Smyrna
Index