Tears in the Graeco-Roman World / / ed. by Thorsten Fögen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Baumgarten, Roland,; Bylsma, Lauren M.,; Cairns, Douglas L.,; Clark, Christina A.,; Corbeill, Anthony,; Fögen, Thorsten,; Föllinger, Sabine,; Graver, Margaret,; Kappas, Arvid,; Konstan, David,; Krasser, Helmut,; Lateiner, Donald,; Libero, Loretana,; Pazdernik, Charles F.,; Ramelli, Ilaria,; Rottenberg, Jonathan,; Schorn, Stefan,; Suter, Ann,; Vingerhoets, Ad J. J. M.,; Šterbenc Erker, Darja,
• HerausgeberIn: Fögen, Thorsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (491 p.)

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

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