Epitaphios (Greek and English Edition)

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$30.85 - $36.45
UPC:
9780992740962
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
8/10/2015
Author:
Yiannis Ritsos
Language:
greek,english
Edition:
Translation, Bilingual

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On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Thessaloniki tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated `to the heroic workers of Thessaloniki' and drawing on the sixth-century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christ's tomb with popular Greek folk traditions of resurrection and Spring to create a universal lament sung by every bereaved mother. This is the first time Epitaphios has been published in book form in English. Translated from the Greek by Rick Newton.

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