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Ancient Greece
ancient Greek mourning customs
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classical antiquity studies
cross-cultural grief traditions
Dead Man
Death Rituals
EAM
Epitaphios Logos
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Female Mourning
female ritual authority
Folk Laments
Funeral Oration
funerary rituals
gendered mourning practices
greek
Greek Folk
Greek Folk Tradition
Greek Lament
Hector's Death
Hector’s Death
Homer
lament
lamenters
laments
margaret
Men's Tears
Men’s Tears
modern
Modern Greek Literature
Modern Greek Writers
Playing Back
ritual
Rural Greece
social control of emotion
Traditional Lament
Virgin's Lament
Virgin’s Lament
Woman Lamenter
Woman's Lament
Woman’s Lament
women
women's
Women's Festivals
Women’s Festivals
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415072496
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
