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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
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.
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Table of contents
- 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