Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Reviews

`Holst-Warhaft's book is bold and wide-ranging, with many fine insights. It is also eminently readable' - Margaret Alexiou, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora