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 Content
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
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Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
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