Description: Dangerous Voices : Women's Laments and Greek Literature, Hardcover by Holst-Warhaft, Gail, ISBN 0415072492, ISBN-13 9780415072496, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Dangerous Voices : Women's Laments and Greek Literature
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dangerous Voices : Women's Laments and Greek Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 1992
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Women Authors, Ancient / General, Death & Dying, General, Women's Studies, Ancient & Classical
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Author: Gail Holst-Warhaft
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
