Add to ORKGThis essay examines the relationship among gender, lamentation, and death in the Greek lament tradition by comparing ancient Greek literary representations of women in mourning from Euripides’ Suppliants to documented examples of women’s ritual laments for the dead from modern-day rural Greece—specifically Inner Mani and Epiros. The author explores the aesthetics of pain, lament as social protest, and the function of lament for creating solidarity among women mourners
The object of this thesis is to describe the features of laments in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripid...
The present chapter examines lament as a lens on the intersections between narrative, affect, and cu...
Funerary lament and ritual weeping are multi-sensorial public expressions of grief that are often re...
I shall focus specifically on the function of female lament as an expression of individual and colle...
Study of lament has begun to be a major part of the feminist reinterpretation of epic, including bot...
This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals...
Lamentation dates back to ancient Greece and has survived through the centuries primarily as an excl...
Women’s discourse in Greek society has been traditionally controlled and restricted by strict socioc...
Singing the Deads in the Iliad Funeral ceremony for Hector, in Iliad XXIV, is the model adopted by ...
This dissertation explores one aspect of Jewish women's religious lives, namely that of women mourni...
Funeral rites are commonly understood as a means by which communities reestablish normal or ideal so...
In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile...
This paper tackles the issue of women and religion through a particular looking glass: religious utt...
The mythic story of Niobe, who loses her children due to hubris and is eventually transformed into a...
This thesis investigates—and seeks to address—the excision, marginalization and sequestering of fema...
The object of this thesis is to describe the features of laments in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripid...
The present chapter examines lament as a lens on the intersections between narrative, affect, and cu...
Funerary lament and ritual weeping are multi-sensorial public expressions of grief that are often re...
I shall focus specifically on the function of female lament as an expression of individual and colle...
Study of lament has begun to be a major part of the feminist reinterpretation of epic, including bot...
This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals...
Lamentation dates back to ancient Greece and has survived through the centuries primarily as an excl...
Women’s discourse in Greek society has been traditionally controlled and restricted by strict socioc...
Singing the Deads in the Iliad Funeral ceremony for Hector, in Iliad XXIV, is the model adopted by ...
This dissertation explores one aspect of Jewish women's religious lives, namely that of women mourni...
Funeral rites are commonly understood as a means by which communities reestablish normal or ideal so...
In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile...
This paper tackles the issue of women and religion through a particular looking glass: religious utt...
The mythic story of Niobe, who loses her children due to hubris and is eventually transformed into a...
This thesis investigates—and seeks to address—the excision, marginalization and sequestering of fema...
The object of this thesis is to describe the features of laments in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripid...
The present chapter examines lament as a lens on the intersections between narrative, affect, and cu...
Funerary lament and ritual weeping are multi-sensorial public expressions of grief that are often re...