In fairy-tales they often have magical power. It is obvious that, depending on the literary genre and historical period, tears can have a variety of different functions. Scholarship has produced numerous studies on the significance of tears in literature and society from the early Middle Ages until the present.1 Even the representation of crying in music has been analysed (see, for example, Ringhandt 2001). Tears and crying are ubiquitous in ancient and modern literature. Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction Thorsten FГ§gen вЂњTears lubricate love songs and love, weddings and funerals, public rituals and private pain, and perhaps no scientific study can capture their many meanings.вЂќ Benedict Carey, The muddled tracks of all those tears. Bylsma & Jonathan Rottenberg Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon. ДЄrvid Kappas Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience. Pazdernik Fortune s Laughter and a Bureaucrat s Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople. Ilaria Ramelli Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. Stefan Schorn Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch s Consolatio ad uxorem in Context. Дavid Konstan Meleager s Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure. ДЄnthony Corbeill Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome. Дonald Lateiner Tears in Apuleius Metamorphoses. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre. Helmut Krasser Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. Margaret Graver The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca s 99th Epistle. Loretana de Libero Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers. Thorsten FГ§gen Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers. Дarja SЛ‡terbenc Erker Women s Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual. Дonald Lateiner Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius. Roland Baumgarten Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers. Cairns Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture. Sabine FГ§llinger Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer). Cover design: Christopher Schneider, Laufen.Д¬ontents Thorsten FГ§gen Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction. Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Hubert & Co. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. м‘” Copyright 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. ISBN 978-3-11-020111-6 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at. Classical literature в«є History and criticism. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tears in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Thorsten FГ¶gen. м•ќ Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines м•Є of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. Tears in the Graeco-Roman World Edited by

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