{"product_id":"9783110201116","title":"Tears in the Graeco-Roman World","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\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 Sterbenc 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThorsten Fögen\u003c\/strong\u003e, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Der vorliegende Band bietet eine wertvolle systematische Übersicht über ein Thema, das zuvor im Gegensatz zu Humor und Gelächter nur punktuell erforscht wurde.\"\n\u003cem\u003eJudith Hindermann in: Museum Helveticum Universität Basel Vol. 67 Fasc. 4 (2010)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\n\u003cem\u003eJorge Tárrega in: BMCR 2010.10.14\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Insgesamt besticht der vorliegende Band [...] durch seine Ausgewogenheit und die Aktualität der in ihm vertretenen Forschungsansätze.\"\n\u003cem\u003eJudith Hagen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.03.2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48768287408363,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":585.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783110201116-1.jpg?v=1781718470","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9783110201116","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}