Tears in the Graeco-Roman world /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fögen, Thorsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2009.
Temas:
Crying in literature.
Tears in literature.
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Crying > Social aspects > Greece.
Crying > Social aspects > Rome.
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Pleurs dans la littérature.
Larmes dans la littérature.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Pleurs > Aspect social > Grèce.
Pleurs > Aspect social > Rome.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
Classical literature
Crying in literature
Crying > Social aspects
Tears in literature
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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