1. Critical edition and French translation published as: Gregory of Nazianzus, La Passion du Christ: tragédie, ed. André Tuilier, SC 149 (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1969).
2. On the attribution of authorship, see Marek Starowieyski, “Les Apocryphes dans la tragédie Christus Patiens,” Apocrypha 5 (1994): 269–88, at 280–84.
3. See especially Margaret Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974), 62–66, and 102–29;
4. and Margaret Alexiou, “The Lament of the Virgin in Byzantine Literature and Modern Greek FolkSong,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 1.1 (1975): 111–40.
5. For a contextual overview, see Loring M. Danforth and Alexander Tsiaras, The Death Rituals of Rural Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982)