Funeral ritual and power

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Stevanović, L. (2009). Funeral ritual and power: Farewelling the dead in the ancient Greek funerary ritual, 57(2), 37-52. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610902037S
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Title

Funeral ritual and power

Subtitle

Farewelling the dead in the ancient Greek funerary ritual

Author

Lada, Stevanović

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

2

Start page

37

End page

52

ISSN
ISBN
DOI
URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610902037S

Date

2009-2020/03/08/16:34:57

Abstract

The paper discusses the development of the traditional genre of lament for the deed in Greek antiquity, that is possible to follow since the earliest written traces (of oral tradition such as Iliad) all up to Modern Greek times. However, focus of the paper is made on the development of this female oral genre and restrictive laws and measurements against this traditional form as a consequence of the formation of the first Greek city-states. What were these measurements like, who were they aimed against and why was it necessary to control ritual lament? Was this control successful?.

Keywords

power, women, men, Solonian law