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Dangerous Voices Women's Laments and Greek Literature
By Gail Holst-Warhaft
Copyright 1992
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, A note on transliteration and translation, Introduction: Dangerous voices: women’s laments and Greek literature, 1. Death, tears and ideas: lament in cross-cultural perspective, 2. The painful art: women’s laments for the dead in rural Greece, 3. The politics of revenge in the laments of Inner Mani: duty, honour and poisoned eggs, 4. Mourning in a man’s world: the Epitaphios Logos and the banning of laments in fifth-century Athens, 5. From the Erinyes to the Eumenides: tragedy and the taming of lament, 6. Epitaphs and photographs: laments in modern Greek literature, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Gail Holst-Warhaft
`Holst-Warhaft's book is bold and wide-ranging, with many fine insights. It is also eminently readable' - Margaret Alexiou, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora
