

The tears that Cinderella sheds on her deceased mother s grave nourish the sprig planted on it the sprig then becomes a tree which provides the girl with the garments that she needs for her transformation. 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 Fçgen “Tears lubricate love songs and love, weddings and funerals, public rituals and private pain, and perhaps no scientific study can capture their many meanings.” Benedict Carey, The muddled tracks of all those tears. Bylsma & Jonathan Rottenberg Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon. Īrvid 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. ĭavid Konstan Meleager s Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure. Īnthony Corbeill Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome. ĭonald 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 Fçgen Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers. ĭarja Sˇterbenc Erker Women s Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual. ĭonald 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 Fçllinger Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer). Cover design: Christopher Schneider, Laufen.Ĭontents Thorsten Fçgen 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. 쑔 Copyright 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

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