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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (491 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110201116
  • 9783110214024
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93353 22
LOC classification:
  • PA3015.C78 T43 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

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In English.

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