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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783111738949
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
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Language: English
Number of pages: 491
Weight: -1g