Dangerous Voices : Women's Laments and Greek Literature

Name: Dangerous Voices
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415072496
Price: 30950 KES
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ISBN: 9780415072496

by Gail Holst-Warhaft

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0415072492

ISBN-13 9780415072496

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 29th, 1992

Print length 238 Pages

Weight 406 grams

Dimensions 14.00 x 22.40 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets Social & cultural history Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies: women and girls Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies: women Social and cultural history

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Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the Greek lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, in Antiquity as well as in modern times.

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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