| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Contents |
Death, tears and ideas: lament in cross-cultural perspective -- The painful art: women's laments for the dead in rural Greece -- The politics of revenge in the laments of Inner Mani: duty, honour and poisoned eggs -- Mourning in a man's world: the Epitaphios Logos and the banning of laments in fifth-century Athens -- From the Erinyes to the Eumenides: tragedy and the taming of lament -- Epitaphs and photographs: laments in modern Greek literature |
| Summary |
"In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation was introduced to curb these laments in antiquity. An investigation of laments ranging from New Guinea to Greece suggests that this essentially female art form gave women considerable power over the rituals of death. The threat they posed to the Greek state caused them to be appropriated by male writers including the tragedians. Holst-Warhaft argues that the loss of the traditional lament in Greece and other countries not only deprives women of their traditional control over the rituals of death but leaves all mourners impoverished."--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Greek literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 29, 2019) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Death in literature.
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Laments -- Greece -- History and criticism
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Women -- Greece -- Social conditions
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Literature and society -- Greece
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Women and literature -- Greece
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Mourning customs in literature.
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Mourning customs -- Greece
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Women and literature -- Greece -- History
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Mourning customs -- Greece -- History
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Laments -- Greece -- History
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Death.
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Death
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deaths.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Death
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Death in literature
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Greek literature
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Laments
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Literature and society
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Mourning customs
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Mourning customs in literature
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Women and literature
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Women -- Social conditions
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Klaagliederen.
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Vrouwen.
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Letterkunde.
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Grieks.
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203041011 |
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9780203041017 |
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9781134908035 |
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1134908032 |
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9781134908080 |
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1134908083 |
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9781134908073 |
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1134908075 |
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9781280331671 |
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1280331674 |
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9786610331673 |
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6610331677 |
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