Ancient Greek laments

thumb|right|300px|Jan Kochanowski with his dead daughter in a painting by [[Jan Matejko inspired by the poet's Threnodies]]

'''' (, meaning "funeral song"), is a song of lamentation in ancient Greece, a minor deity personifying this song in Greek mythology, and an epithet of Linus. He was the son of Apollo and Calliope, and the inventor of the song Ialemus'' (ἰάλεμος), which was a kind of dirge, or at any rate a song of a very serious and mournful character, and is only mentioned as sung on most melancholy occasions. (Aeschyl. Suppl. 106; Eurip, Herc. Fur. 109, SuppL 283.) In later times, this kind of poetry lost its popularity, and was ridiculed by the comic poets. Ialemus then became synonymous with cold and fros

lyrical song of lamentation in an Athenian tragedy

Ancient Greek musical fragment