Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: <!--StartFragment--> 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. <!--EndFragment-->
Author: Cecilia Nobili
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1594697825