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Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature Hardcover - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Gail Holst-Warhaft


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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.

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  • Title Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature
  • Author Gail Holst-Warhaft
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 238
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1992-10-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415072496 / 0415072492
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.84 x 5.72 x 0.9 in (22.45 x 14.53 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Greek literature - History and criticism, Death in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91040115
  • Dewey Decimal Code 880.900
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