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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

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.
EAN: 9783110201116
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 491
Produktart: Gebunden
Herausgeber: Fögen, Thorsten
Verlag: De Gruyter
Schlagworte: Antike, Literatur Literarisches Motiv Tränen
Größe: 230 × 155 × 37
Gewicht: 834 g