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In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, "barbarians" and "civilized" people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices.This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies. The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. This volume shows that boundaries are constantly negotiated, shifted and refigured through the practices and potentialities of embodiment.

Human body in literature --- Human body --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Social aspects --- Human body in literature. --- Corps humain --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Aspect social --- Ancient Greek Literature. --- Body (Cultural Concepts). --- Classical Latin Literature. --- History of Ancient Arts.

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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.

Crying in literature --- Tears in literature --- Classical literature --- Crying --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Crying in literature. --- Tears in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Pleurs dans la littérature --- Larmes dans la littérature --- Littérature ancienne --- Pleurs --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social --- Classical literature - History and criticism. --- Classical literature --History and criticism. --- Crying - Social aspects - Greece. --- Crying - Social aspects - Rome. --- Crying --Social aspects --Greece. --- Crying --Social aspects --Rome. --- Weeping --- Emotions --- Nonverbal communication --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Classical literature - History and criticism --- Crying - Social aspects - Greece --- Crying - Social aspects - Rome --- Crying (literature). --- Dacryology (literature). --- Grief (literature). --- Tears (literature).