TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fögen, Thorsten
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2009//
TI  - Tears in the Graeco-Roman world
PB  - Walter de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Crying
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Greece
KW  - Crying in literature
KW  - Tears in literature
KW  - Rome
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - Crying (literature)
KW  - Dacryology (literature)
KW  - Grief (literature)
KW  - Tears (literature)
AB  - 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
SN  - 9783110214024
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110214024
UR  - https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-13889
UR  - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz31010890xinh.htm
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110214024.jpg
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110214024/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214024
DO  - 10.1515/9783110214024
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Thorsten Fögen
ID  - 1655549359
ER  -