Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/vq4eX79 Dangerous Voices Women's Laments and Greek Literature By: Gail Holst-Warhaft Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415121651, 0415121655 eText ISBN: 9781134908073, 1134908075 Edition: 1st Pages: 240 Copyright year: 1995 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.58 USD SKU 9781134908073R90 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. Additional ISBNs 9780203041017, 9786610331673, 9781280331671, 9781134908073, 9781134908080, 9781134908035, 0203041011, 6610331677, 1280331674, 1134908075, 1134908083, 1134908032, 9780415072496, 9780415121651, 0415072492, 0415121655
