Tears in the Graeco-Roman World (eBook)

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Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Frontmatter 
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Contents 5
Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction 7
Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer) 23
Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture 43
Tragic Tears and Gender 65
Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers 91
Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius 111
Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual 141
Tears in Lucretius 167
Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers 185
Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers 215
The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle 241
Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre 259
Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 283
Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome 303
Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure 317
Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context 341
Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa 373
Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople 403
Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience 425
Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon 445
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