Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World


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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 Fögen: Introduction; Sabine Föllinger: 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 Šterbenc Erker: Women’s Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual; Christina A. Clark: Tears in Lucretius; Thorsten Fögen: 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

About the Author :
Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Review :
"Der vorliegende Band bietet eine wertvolle systematische Ubersicht uber ein Thema, das zuvor im Gegensatz zu Humor und Gelachter nur punktuell erforscht wurde."Judith Hindermann in: Museum Helveticum Universitat 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 epocas sobre un tema en el Mundo Antiguo que, segun queda demostrado, requeria una mayor profundizacion: las lagrimas."Jorge Tarrega in: BMCR 2010.10.14 "Insgesamt besticht der vorliegende Band [...] durch seine Ausgewogenheit und die Aktualitat der in ihm vertretenen Forschungsansatze."Judith Hagen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.03.2010


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783110201116
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 497
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 992 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3110201119
  • Publisher Date: 19 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 155 mm


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