Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
ISBN: 9783110214024
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / De Gruyter, Inc.
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Subjects: Literature;

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.


Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

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