Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Edited by: Thorsten Fögen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214024

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

"Der vorliegende Band bietet eine wertvolle systematische Übersicht über ein Thema, das zuvor im Gegensatz zu Humor und Gelächter nur punktuell erforscht wurde."
Judith Hindermann in: Museum Helveticum Universität Basel Vol. 67 Fasc. 4 (2010)

"En definitiva, estamos ante una obra completa y exhaustiva que nos aporta diversas visiones e interpretaciones de autores y épocas sobre un tema en el Mundo Antiguo que, según queda demostrado, requería una mayor profundización: las lágrimas."
Jorge Tárrega in: BMCR 2010.10.14

"Insgesamt besticht der vorliegende Band [...] durch seine Ausgewogenheit und die Aktualität der in ihm vertretenen Forschungsansätze."
Judith Hagen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.03.2010

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction Thorsten Fögen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer) Sabine Föllinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture Douglas L. Cairns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Tragic Tears and Gender Ann Suter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers Roland Baumgarten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius Donald Lateiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual Darja Šterbenc Erker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Tears in Lucretius Christina A. Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers Thorsten Fögen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers Loretana Libero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle Margaret Graver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre Helmut Krasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Donald Lateiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome Anthony Corbeill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure David Konstan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context Stefan Schorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa Ilaria Ramelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople Charles F. Pazdernik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience Arvid Kappas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets, Lauren M. Bylsma and Jonathan Rottenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 491
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Crying (literature); Tears (literature); Dacryology (literature); Grief (literature)

eBook

Published: August 17, 2009
ISBN: 9783110214024

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2009
ISBN: 9783110201116