Alala

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Alala

personification of the war cry in Greek mythology. Her name derives from the onomatopoeic Greek word ἀλαλή (alalḗ),[1] hence the verb ἀλαλάζω (alalázō), "to raise the war-cry". Greek soldiers attacked the enemy with this cry in order to cause panic in their lines and it was asserted that Athenians adopted it to emulate the cry of the owl, the bird of their patron goddess Athena.[2]

Italian aviators shout the war-cry in October 1917

According to

Keres
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In Italy the war-cry (modified as Eja Eja Alalà) /e.jɑ e.jɑ ɑ.lɑ.'lɑ/ was invented by

Fascist movement. Later a young Polish sympathiser, Artur Maria Swinarski (1900–65), used the cry as the title of a collection of his poems in 1926.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. LSJ entry ἀλαλή
  2. ^ Łukasz Różycki, Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises, Brill 2021, p.135
  3. ^ Pindar, fr. 78 Race, pp. 322, 323 [= Plutarch, On the Fame of the Athenians 7.349C].
  4. ^ Giovani Bonomo, Storia del Fascismo
  5. ^ According to an illustration for La Domenica Del Corriere, 21-28 October 1917
  6. ^ Isabelle Vonlanthen, Dichten für das Vaterland, Zürich, 2012, p. 229

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