{"product_id":"tears-in-the-graeco-roman-world-9783110201116","title":"Tears in the Graeco-Roman World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Der vorliegende Band bietet eine wertvolle systematische Ubersicht uber ein Thema, das zuvor im Gegensatz zu Humor und Gelachter nur punktuell erforscht wurde.\"Judith Hindermann in: Museum Helveticum Universitat Basel Vol. 67 Fasc. 4 (2010) \"En definitiva, estamos ante una obra completa y exhaustiva que nos aporta diversas visiones e interpretaciones de autores y epocas sobre un tema en el Mundo Antiguo que, segun queda demostrado, requeria una mayor profundizacion: las lagrimas.\"Jorge Tarrega in: BMCR 2010.10.14 \"Insgesamt besticht der vorliegende Band [...] durch seine Ausgewogenheit und die Aktualitat der in ihm vertretenen Forschungsansatze.\"Judith Hagen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.03.2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThorsten Fögen: \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction; \u003cem\u003eSabine Föllinger: \u003c\/em\u003eTears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer); \u003cem\u003eDouglas L. Cairns: \u003c\/em\u003eWeeping and Veiling. Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture; \u003cem\u003eAnn C. Suter: \u003c\/em\u003eTragic Tears and Gender; \u003cem\u003eRoland Baumgarten: \u003c\/em\u003eDangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers; \u003cem\u003eDonald Lateiner: \u003c\/em\u003eTears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodo-tus to Polybius; \u003cem\u003eDarja Šterbenc Erker: \u003c\/em\u003eWomen’s Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual; \u003cem\u003eChristina A. Clark: \u003c\/em\u003eTears in Lucretius; \u003cem\u003eThorsten Fögen: \u003c\/em\u003eTears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers; \u003cem\u003eLoretana de Libero: \u003c\/em\u003e“Precibus ac lacrimis”. Tears in Roman Historiographers; \u003cem\u003eMargaret Graver: \u003c\/em\u003eThe Weeping Wise. Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca’s 99th Epistle; \u003cem\u003eHelmut Krasser: \u003c\/em\u003eStatius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5). Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre; \u003cem\u003eDonald Lateiner: \u003c\/em\u003eTears in Apuleius’ “Metamorphoses”; \u003cem\u003eAnthony Corbeill: \u003c\/em\u003eWeeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome; \u003cem\u003eDavid Konstan: \u003c\/em\u003eMeleager’s Sweet Tears. Observations on Weeping and Pleasure; \u003cem\u003eStefan Schorn: \u003c\/em\u003eTears of the Bereaved. Plutarch’s “Consolatio ad uxorem” in its Context; \u003cem\u003eIlaria Ramelli: \u003c\/em\u003eTears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss. Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa; \u003cem\u003eCharles Pazdernik: \u003c\/em\u003eFortune’s Laughter and a Bureaucrat’s Tears. Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople; \u003cem\u003eArvid Kappas: \u003c\/em\u003eMysterious Tears. The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience; \u003cem\u003eAd J. J. Vingerhoets, Lauren Bylsma \u0026amp; Jonathan Rottenberg: \u003c\/em\u003eCrying. A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516398166359,"sku":"9783110201116","price":155.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tears-in-the-graeco-roman-world-9783110201116","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}