UID:
edocfu_9959228744002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (497 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-29592-6
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9786612295928
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3-11-021402-4
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction --
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Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer) --
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Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture --
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Tragic Tears and Gender --
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Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers --
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Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius --
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Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual --
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Tears in Lucretius --
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Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers --
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Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers --
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The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle --
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Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre --
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Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses --
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Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome --
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Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure --
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Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context --
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Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa --
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Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople --
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Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience --
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Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon --
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Backmatter
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-11-020111-9
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Altertumswissenschaften
DOI:
10.1515/9783110214024
