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...
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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. 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
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 EpistleStatius 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 ConstantinopleMysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience; Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon; Backmatter;
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...
more
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 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.
