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Dangerous Voices - Women's Laments and Greek Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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Dangerous Voices - Women's Laments and Greek Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
An investigation of laments from New Guinea to Greece suggests
that they are essentially a female art form, one that gives women
considerable power over the rituals of death. Women's prominence in
the death rituals and their use of the public forum of the funeral
to express grief and anger presented a powerful challenge to
established social order. The state's need to raise a standing army
meant that death in war had to be glorified, not lamented. At the
same time, the existence of official law courts discouraged the
cycle of private retribution which was inflamed by laments.
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