Threnodic Elegy in Sparta
<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal">The new Simonides elegy for the dead at Plataea fits within an obscure but discoverable tradition, associated especially with Sparta, of public songs of lamentation that celebrated fallen warriors at festivals like the Gymnopaidiai.<...
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| Language: | English |
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Duke University
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/1631 |