Tears in the Graeco-Roman World /

Tears in the Graeco-Roman World / / ed. by Thorsten Fögen.

This volume presents a wide range of contributions that analyse the cultural, sociological and communicative significance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers cover the time from the eighth century BCE until late antiquity and take into account a broad variety of literary genres...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Baumgarten, Roland,
Bylsma, Lauren M.,
Cairns, Douglas L.,
Clark, Christina A.,
Corbeill, Anthony,
Fögen, Thorsten,
Föllinger, Sabine,
Graver, Margaret,
Kappas, Arvid,
Konstan, David,
Krasser, Helmut,
Lateiner, Donald,
Libero, Loretana,
Pazdernik, Charles F.,
Ramelli, Ilaria,
Rottenberg, Jonathan,
Schorn, Stefan,
Suter, Ann,
Vingerhoets, Ad J. J. M.,
Šterbenc Erker, Darja,
HerausgeberIn:
Fögen, Thorsten,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (491 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction
  • Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer)
  • Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture
  • Tragic Tears and Gender
  • Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers
  • Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius
  • Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual
  • Tears in Lucretius
  • Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers
  • Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers
  • The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle
  • Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre
  • Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
  • Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome
  • Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure
  • Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context
  • Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa
  • Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople
  • Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience
  • Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon
  • Backmatter

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