Lament Songs Glorifying Greek Soldiers Killed in Battle During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
Lament Songs Glorifying Greek Soldiers Killed in Battle During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the text is to study the way in which the funeral song, a mournful, interactive, narrative genre that frames the ritual process of exit from life is transformed when its content changes. In other words, interaction between the morphological expression and the content on the one hand and social function on the other hand is a basic issue in the text. The tradition of lament in Greek history is not a modern phenomenon. It became a significant poetic art in the Iliad by Homer, who, however, used the existing poetic tradition. Taking into consideration this historical tradition, an attempt is made to understand the way in which the funeral song is used as a genre of oral literature, in order to honor and glorify those who were killed while fighting for the liberation of the homeland.

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