Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World is written by Thorsten Fögen and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110214024 (ISBN 10) and 9783110214024 (ISBN 13).

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.