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Laments

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Mourning customs
Elegiac poetry

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Images about Laments

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  • Achilles cutting off a lock of his hair in mourning over the body of Patroclus. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1660, after A. van Diepenbeeck.

Works from the collections

4 works

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    Achilles lamenting over the body of Patroclus, accompanied by Greek elders and women. Engraving by G. Venzo after G. Hamilton.

    Hamilton, Gavin, 1723-1798. | Date: [between 1790? and 1810?] | Reference: 2803403i
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    Dangerous voices : women's laments and Greek literature / Gail Holst-Warhaft.

    Holst-Warhaft, Gail, 1941- | Date: 1992
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    The keen of the South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions / Collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker.

    Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854. | Date: 1844
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    Achilles cutting off a lock of his hair in mourning over the body of Patroclus. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1660, after A. van Diepenbeeck.

    Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675. | Date: [1660] | Reference: 38319i

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