Ann Suter is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode Island and author of The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

Suter's collection offers a valuable corrective to what have become almost ideological attitudes to lament in Greek tragedy.

• 1. Introduction - Ann Suter ; 2. Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-cultural Perspective Bachvarova ; 3. "When you go to the meadow...": The Lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite "Sallais Wastais" Ritual Rutherford ; 4. Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament Burke ; 5. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster Martin ; 6. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 Perkell ; 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual Stears ; 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy Suter ; 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament Karanika ; 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff Levaniouk ; 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile Keith ; 12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome Dutsch

Ann Suter is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode Island and author of The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

Suter's collection offers a valuable corrective to what have become almost ideological attitudes to lament in Greek tragedy.

• 1. Introduction - Ann Suter ; 2. Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-cultural Perspective Bachvarova ; 3. "When you go to the meadow...": The Lament of the Taptara-women in the Hittite "Sallais Wastais" Ritual Rutherford ; 4. Mycenaean Memory and Bronze Age Lament Burke ; 5. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster Martin ; 6. Reading the Laments of Iliad 24 Perkell ; 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual Stears ; 8. Male Lament in Greek Tragedy Suter ; 9. Greek Comedy's Parody of Lament Karanika ; 10. Lament and Hymenaios in Erinna's Distaff Levaniouk ; 11. Lament in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile Keith ; 12. Nenia: Gender, Genre, and Lament in Ancient Rome Dutsch