Tears in the Graeco-Roman WorldThis 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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Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry especially Homer | 17 |
Grief Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture | 37 |
Tragic Tears and Gender | 59 |
Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers | 85 |
Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius | 105 |
Womens Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual | 135 |
Tears in Lucretius | 161 |
Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre | 253 |
Tears in Apuleius Metamorphoses | 277 |
Weeping Statues Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to EarlyChristian Rome | 297 |
Observations on Weeping and Pleasure | 311 |
Plutarchs Consolatio ad uxorem in Context | 335 |
Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa | 367 |
Sorrow Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople | 397 |
The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience | 419 |
Tears in Propertius Ovid and Greek Epistolographers | 179 |
Tears in Roman Historiographers | 209 |
Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Senecas 99th Epistle | 235 |
A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon | 439 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Tears in the Graeco-Roman World |
| Editor | Thorsten Fögen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter, 2009 |
| ISBN | 3110201119, 9783110201116 |
| Length | 491 pages |
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