Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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.
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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 Sterbenc 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
Autoren-Porträt
Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2009, VI, 491 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Fögen, Thorsten
- Herausgegeben: Thorsten Fögen
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- ISBN-10: 3110201119
- ISBN-13: 9783110201116
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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