Title Dangerous voices : women's laments and Greek literature / Gail Holst-Warhaft

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992

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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 Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 29, 2019) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism Death in literature. Laments -- Greece -- History and criticism Women -- Greece -- Social conditions Literature and society -- Greece Women and literature -- Greece Mourning customs in literature. Mourning customs -- Greece Women and literature -- Greece -- History Mourning customs -- Greece -- History Laments -- Greece -- History Death. Death deaths. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Death Death in literature Greek literature Laments Literature and society Mourning customs Mourning customs in literature Women and literature Women -- Social conditions Klaagliederen. Vrouwen. Letterkunde. Grieks. Greece Genre/Form Electronic books History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0203041011 9780203041017 9781134908035 1134908032 9781134908080 1134908083 9781134908073 1134908075 9781280331671 1280331674 9786610331673 6610331677

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