| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Herodotus Encyclopedia |
| Editors | Christopher Baron |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 626–628 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119113522 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118689646 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Mar 2021 |
Abstract
Grief, a spontaneous affective experience with a strong instinctive and physical basis, may be contrasted with mourning, which is rather a matter of socially sanctioned and ritualized performance, but the two concepts cannot be rigidly separated. Communal and individual grief and mourning are prominent in the Histories, both as an element of Herodotus’ ethnography and as a guiding thematic motive, especially in connection with the major theme of the mutability of fortune.