Chapter 1 Reading Iliadic Lament -- 1. Death in the Iliad -- 2. Γόοι vs Θρῆνοι -- 3. Selection Criteria -- 4. Types of Γόοι -- 5. Genre and Sub-genre -- 6. Defining the Iliadic γόοι -- 7. Scope of Research -- Chapter 2. The Typology of the Illiadic Γόοι -- 2.1. Introductory Remarks -- 2.2. Praising Address -- 2.3. "Comparison" -- 2.4. Common fate -- 2.5. "Death-Wish" -- 2.6. Past and Present -- 2.7. Tripartite Structure -- 2.8. Ring-Composition -- 2.9. Antiphonal Element -- Chapter 3. Introductory and Closing Formulas -- 3.1. Speech-formulas, speech-classification and γόος-speeches -- 3.2. Personal lament speech introductions -- 3.3. Personal lament speech closures -- 3.4. Privileged Individuals and Unprivileged Chorus -- Chapter 4. Distance, Separation and Mors Immatura: Common Motifs in the Iliadic γόοι -- 4.1. Distance and Separation -- 4.2. Closeness -- 4.3. Mors immatura -- Chapter 5. Intratextual Readings -- 5.1. Introductory Remarks -- 5.2. Agamemnon -- 5.3. Andromache -- 5.4. Thetis -- 5.5. Briseis -- 5.6. Achilles -- 5.7. Priam -- 5.8. Hecuba -- 5.9. Helen -- Conclusion -- Appendix I Privileged and Unprivileged Dead -- 1. Unreported γόοι in the Iliad -- 2. The Therapeutics of Lament -- Appendix II Short obituaries in the Iliad -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Types of Short Obituaries -- 2.1. The Brief SO -- 2.2. The Expanded SO -- 3. Iliadic γόοι between mirroring and deflecting -- Table 1 -- Table 2 -- Bibliography -- Editions, Commentaries, Concordances, Grammars, Lexica -- Works Cited -- Indexes -- General Index -- Index of Homeric Passages -- Index of Greek Words.