Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature Book

From the sixth century onward, legislation was introduced in Athens and a number of the advanced city states which restricted mourning the dead, particularly women's laments. Dangerous Voices investigates the threat which mourning posed to the society and the way in which the state attempted to subdue and subvert laments.Dangerous Voices suggests that the loss of the traditional lament in Greece and other countries deprived women of their traditional control over the rituals of death and left them without a language to address the dead.Read More

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  • 0415121655
  • 9780415121651
  • Gail Holst-Warhaft
  • 15 June 1995
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • 1
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