Tears in the Graeco-Roman world

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Tears in the Graeco-Roman world

edited by Thorsten Fögen

Walter de Gruyter, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Thorsten Foegen: Introduction
  • Sabine Foellinger: Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer)
  • Douglas L. Cairns: Weeping and Veiling. Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture
  • Ann C. Suter: Tragic Tears and Gender
  • Roland Baumgarten: Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers
  • Donald Lateiner: Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodo-tus to Polybius
  • Darja Sterbenc Erker: Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual
  • Christina A. Clark: Tears in Lucretius
  • Thorsten Foegen: Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers
  • Loretana de Libero: "Precibus ac lacrimis". Tears in Roman Historiographers
  • Margaret Graver: The Weeping Wise. Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle
  • Helmut Krasser: Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5). Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre
  • Donald Lateiner: Tears in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses"
  • Anthony Corbeill: Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome
  • David Konstan: Meleager's Sweet Tears. Observations on Weeping and Pleasure
  • Stefan Schorn: Tears of the Bereaved. Plutarch's "Consolatio ad uxorem" in its Context
  • Ilaria Ramelli: Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss. Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa
  • Charles Pazdernik: Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears. Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople
  • Arvid Kappas: Mysterious Tears. The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience
  • Ad J. J. Vingerhoets, Lauren Bylsma & Jonathan Rottenberg: Crying. A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon

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