TY - BOOK ID - 17174319 TI - Tears in the Graeco-Roman World AU - Baumgarten, Roland AU - Bylsma, Lauren M AU - Cairns, Douglas L AU - Clark, Christina A AU - Corbeill, Anthony AU - Fögen, Thorsten AU - Föllinger, Sabine AU - Graver, Margaret AU - Kappas, Arvid AU - Krasser, Helmut AU - Lateiner, Donald AU - Libero, Loretana AU - Pazdernik, Charles F AU - Ramelli, Ilaria AU - Rottenberg, Jonathan AU - Schorn, Stefan AU - Suter, Ann AU - Vingerhoets, Ad J J M AU - Konstan, David AU - Šterbenc Erker, Darja PY - 2009 SN - 9783110201116 3110201119 9786612295928 1282295926 3110214024 9783110214024 9781282295926 6612295929 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Crying in literature KW - Tears in literature KW - Classical literature KW - Crying KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects KW - Crying in literature. KW - Tears in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Pleurs dans la littérature KW - Larmes dans la littérature KW - Littérature ancienne KW - Pleurs KW - Histoire et critique KW - Aspect social KW - Classical literature - History and criticism. KW - Classical literature --History and criticism. KW - Crying - Social aspects - Greece. KW - Crying - Social aspects - Rome. KW - Crying --Social aspects --Greece. KW - Crying --Social aspects --Rome. KW - Weeping KW - Emotions KW - Nonverbal communication KW - Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature, Classical KW - Literature KW - Literature, Ancient KW - Greek literature KW - Latin literature KW - Classical literature - History and criticism KW - Crying - Social aspects - Greece KW - Crying - Social aspects - Rome KW - Crying (literature). KW - Dacryology (literature). KW - Grief (literature). KW - Tears (literature). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17174319 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. ER -