Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Thorsten Fögen, Thorsten Fögen

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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Thorsten Fögen, Thorsten Fögen

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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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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2009
ISBN
9783110214024
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction
  4. Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer)
  5. Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture
  6. Tragic Tears and Gender
  7. Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers
  8. Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius
  9. Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual
  10. Tears in Lucretius
  11. Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers
  12. Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers
  13. The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle
  14. Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre
  15. Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
  16. Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome
  17. Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure
  18. Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context
  19. Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa
  20. Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople
  21. Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience
  22. Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon
  23. Backmatter
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APA 6 Citation

[author missing]. (2009). Tears in the Graeco-Roman World ([edition unavailable]). De Gruyter. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/651796/tears-in-the-graecoroman-world-pdf (Original work published 2009)

Chicago Citation

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Harvard Citation

[author missing] (2009) Tears in the Graeco-Roman World. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/651796/tears-in-the-graecoroman-world-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. Tears in the Graeco-Roman World. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter, 2009. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.