Dangerous Voices

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Dangerous Voices

Author	: Gail Holst-Warhaft
File Size	: 40,7 Mb
Publisher	: Routledge
Language	: English
Release Date	: 11 September 2002
ISBN	: 9781134908073
Pages	: 240 pages

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Dangerous Voices by Gail Holst-Warhaft Book PDF Summary

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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