Ratapan

Ratapan adalah sebuah ekspresi besar dari rasa duka, sering kali dalam bentuk musik, syair atau lagu. Duka sering kali menimbulkan penyesalan atau rasa berkabung. Ratapan juga dapat diekspresikan dalam bentuk verbal, di mana seseorang akan bmeratap suatu hal yang disesalkan oleh mereka atau orang yang meninggalkan mereka.^[1]

• Richard Church, The Lamendation of Military Campaigns. PDQ: Steve Ruling, 2000.
• Margaret Alexiou, The ritual lament in Greek tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
• Walter Brueggeman, An Unsettling God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009
• Michael Coogan, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
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• Andrew Dalby, Rediscovering Homer (New York: Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-05788-7) pp. 141–143.
• Gail Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous voices: women's laments and Greek literature. London: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-415-12165-5.
• Nancy C. Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.
• Claus Westermann, Praise and Lament in the Psalms. Westminster: John Knox Press, 1981. ISBN 0-8042-1792-0.
• Marcello Sorce Keller, “Expressing, Communicating, Sharing and Representing Grief and Sorrow with Organised Sound (Musings in Eight Short Segments)”, in Stephen Wild, Di Roy, Aaron Corn and Ruth Lee Martin (eds), One Common Thread – The Musical World of Lament – Thematic Issue of Humanities Research. Canberra, ANU University Press, Vol. XIX, No. 3. 2013, 3-14

• Alexiou Margaret, The ritual lament in greek tradition, CUP, 1974
• Andrea Fishman, "Thrênoi to Moirológia: Female Voices of Solitude, Resistance, and Solidarity" Oral Tradition, 23/2 (2008): 267-295 Diarsipkan 2019-10-12 di Wayback Machine.
• Roderick Beaton, Folk Poetry of Modern Greece, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Greek lament song (Mοιρολόϊ - Moiroloi) from Mani, performed in a funeral
• Greek lament song (Mοιρολόϊ - Moiroloi) from Epirus, instrumental]