TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumgarten,Roland
AU  - Bylsma,Lauren M.
AU  - Cairns,Douglas L.
AU  - Clark,Christina A.
AU  - Corbeill,Anthony
AU  - Fögen,Thorsten
AU  - Föllinger,Sabine
AU  - Graver,Margaret
AU  - Kappas,Arvid
AU  - Konstan,David
AU  - Krasser,Helmut
AU  - Lateiner,Donald
AU  - Libero,Loretana
AU  - Pazdernik,Charles F.
AU  - Ramelli,Ilaria
AU  - Rottenberg,Jonathan
AU  - Schorn,Stefan
AU  - Suter,Ann
AU  - Vingerhoets,Ad J.J.M.
AU  - Šterbenc Erker,Darja
TI  - Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
SN  - 9783110201116
AV  - PA3015.C78 T43 2009eb
U1  - 809/.93353 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Crying in literature
KW  - Crying
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rome
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Tears in literature
KW  - Antike
KW  - Dakryologie
KW  - Trauer /i.d.Literatur
KW  - Tränen /i.d.Literatur
KW  - Weinen /i.d.Literatur
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Crying (literature)
KW  - Dacryology (literature)
KW  - Grief (literature)
KW  - Tears (literature)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214024
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110214024
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ER  -