Tears in the Graeco-Roman World / Edition 1

by Thorsten Fögen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110201116
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/19/2009
Pages:	497
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"Der vorliegende Band bietet eine wertvolle systematische Übersicht über ein Thema, das zuvor im Gegensatz zu Humor und Gelächter nur punktuell erforscht wurde."
Judith Hindermann in: Museum Helveticum Universität 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 épocas sobre un tema en el Mundo Antiguo que, según queda demostrado, requería una mayor profundización: las lágrimas."
Jorge Tárrega in: BMCR 2010.10.14

"Insgesamt besticht der vorliegende Band [...] durch seine Ausgewogenheit und die Aktualität der in ihm vertretenen Forschungsansätze."
Judith Hagen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.03.2010

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