Tears in the Graeco-Roman World /
Tears in the Graeco-Roman World /
ed. by Thorsten Fögen.
- 1 online resource (491 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110201116 9783110214024
10.1515/9783110214024 doi
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Crying in literature.
Crying--Social aspects--Greece.
Crying--Social aspects--Rome--Greece--Rome (Empire).
Crying--Social aspects--Greece.
Crying--Social aspects--Rome.
Tears in literature.
Antike.
Dakryologie.
Trauer /i.d.Literatur.
Tränen /i.d.Literatur.
Weinen /i.d.Literatur.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Crying (literature). Dacryology (literature). Grief (literature). Tears (literature).
PA3015.C78 / T43 2009eb
809/.93353
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110201116 9783110214024
10.1515/9783110214024 doi
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Crying in literature.
Crying--Social aspects--Greece.
Crying--Social aspects--Rome--Greece--Rome (Empire).
Crying--Social aspects--Greece.
Crying--Social aspects--Rome.
Tears in literature.
Antike.
Dakryologie.
Trauer /i.d.Literatur.
Tränen /i.d.Literatur.
Weinen /i.d.Literatur.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Crying (literature). Dacryology (literature). Grief (literature). Tears (literature).
PA3015.C78 / T43 2009eb
809/.93353