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) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009] ©2009 |
出版年: | 2009 |
言語: | English |
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物理的記述: | 1 online resource (491 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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要約: | 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 such as epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the novel. The collection also contains two papers from modern socio-psychology. |
フォーマット: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110214024 9783110621099 9783110238570 9783110636178 9783110219517 9783110219524 9783110219456 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110214024 |
アクセス: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Thorsten Fögen. |