concept

Lament

Words

A formal cry of grief in verse or song. Not hymn as praise, and not elegy as a near twin — filed lament; keep elegy apart if both.

Hellenic religion

  • Lament appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad stages formal laments for the dead, including the mourning over Hector and Patroclus. A named Hellenic lament speech in that epic, not hymn as praise and not elegy as a near twin.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.