Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
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| Title: | Tears in the Graeco-Roman World |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Thorsten Fögen |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Crying--Social aspects--Greece, Crying--Social aspects--Rome, Classical literature--History and criticism, Crying in literature, Tears in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9783110201116 9783110214024 |
