The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean

Mary R. Bachvarova is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Willamette University, Oregon. Her publications include From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic (Cambridge, 2015). Dorota Dutsch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (2008) and Women in Roman Republic Drama (co-edited with David Konstan and Sharon James, 2015). Ann Suter is retired Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2002) and Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond (editor, 2008).

Foreword Margaret Alexiou; 1. Introduction Ann Suter; 2. The city lament genre in the Ancient Near East John Jacobs; 3. The destroyed city in ancient 'world history': from Agade to Troy Mary R. Bachvarova; 4. Mourning a city 'empty of men': stereotypes of Anatolian communal lament in Aeschylus' Persians Mary R. Bachvarova and Dorota Dutsch; 5. Seven Against Thebes, city laments, and Athenian history Geoffrey Bakewell; 6. Lament for fallen cities in Early Roman drama: Naevius, Ennius, and Plautus Seth A. Jeppesen; 7. City lament in Augustan epic: antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa Alison Keith; 8. The fall of Troy in Seneca's Troades Jo-Ann Shelton; 9. How to lament an eternal city: the ambiguous fall of Rome Catherine Conybeare; 10. Messengers, angels, and laments for the fall of Constantinople Andromache Karanika; 11. 'A sudden longing': remembering the lost city of Smyrna Gail Holst-Warhaft.