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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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
2009.
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Notice corrigée d'après la consultation du 2014-11-19 Numérisation de l'édition de Berlin : W. de Gruyter, cop. 2009 De Gruyter e-books Corpus Sciences de l'Antiquité (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Tears in the Graeco-Roman world, edited by Thorsten Fögen, Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 2009, 1 vol. (VI-491 p.), 978-3-11-020111-6 |
Sommario:
- 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 EpistleStatius 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 ConstantinopleMysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience; Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon; Backmatter