Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
β Thorsten Fogen
π Library
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2009
π English
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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
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- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 497
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
β¦ Table of 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
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