Gail Holst-Warhaft

Dangerous Voices

Women's Laments and Greek Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the Greek lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, in Antiquity as well as in modern times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780415072496
• ISBN-10: 0415072492
• Artikelnr.: 21479688

Autorenporträt

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Inhaltsangabe

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