%0 Book %T Tears in the Graeco-Roman world %A Fögen, Thorsten %D 2009 %I Walter de Gruyter %C Berlin %@ 9783110214024 %G English %F 1655549359 %O edited by Thorsten Fögen %O Online-Ausgabe Berlin De Gruyter 1 Online-Ressource %X 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 %L FB 5875 %K Classical literature %K History and criticism %K Crying %K Social aspects %K Greece %K Crying in literature %K Tears in literature %K Rome %K Rome (Empire) %K LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical %K Crying (literature) %K Dacryology (literature) %K Grief (literature) %K Tears (literature) %9 Text %9 Aufsatzsammlung %R 10.1515/9783110214024 %U https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110214024 %U https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-13889 %U https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz31010890xinh.htm %U https://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110214024.jpg %U https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110214024/original %U https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214024