A City Lament is a poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city. This literary genre, from around 2000 BCE onwards, was particularly prevalent in the Mesopotamian region of the Ancient Near East.[1] The Bible's Book of Lamentations concerning Jerusalem around 586 BCE, contains some elements of a city lament.[2]
- ^ Boyadjian, Tamar M. (2018). The City Lament. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501730535.
- ^ Hayes 1998, p. 168.
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