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Title Tears in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Thorsten Fögen

Imprint Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]
©2009

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 OWU Beeghly Stacks  PA3015 .C78 T43 2009     AVAILABLE
Table of Contents
 Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction / Thorsten Fogen1
 Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer) / Sabine Follinger17
 Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture / Douglas L. Cairns37
 Tragic Tears and Gender / Ann Suter59
 Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers / Roland Baumgarten85
 Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius / Donald Lateiner105
 Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual / Darja Sterbene Erker135
 Tears in Lucretius / Christina A. Clark161
 Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers / Thorsten Fogen179
 Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers / Loretana de Libero209
 The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle / Margaret Graver235
 Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre / Helmut Krasser253
 Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Donald Lateiner277
 Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome / Anthony Corbeill297
 Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure / David Konstan311
 Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context / Stefan Schorn335
 Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa / Ilaria Ramelli367
 Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople / Charles F. Pazdernik397
 Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience / Arvid Kappas419
 Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon / Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets, Lauren M. Bylsma, Jonathan Rottenberg439
 Index locorum477
  
Description vi, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format volume
  
Subject Crying in literature
Tears in literature
Classical literature -- History and criticism
Crying -- Social aspects -- Greece
Crying -- Social aspects -- Rome
Add'l Author Fögen, Thorsten
  
ISBN/ISSN 9783110201116
3110201119
LCCN 2009016246
OCLC # 318424490