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Format: 1 online resource (497p.)

ISBN: 9783110214024

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-020111-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110214024

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214024