Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Tears and Crying in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction 1
4. Tears and Crying in Archaic Greek Poetry (especially Homer) 17
5. Weeping and Veiling: Grief, Display and Concealment in Ancient Greek Culture 37
6. Tragic Tears and Gender 59
7. Dangerous Tears? Platonic Provocations and Aristotelic Answers 85
8. Tears and Crying in Hellenic Historiography: Dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius 105
9. Women's Tears in Ancient Roman Ritual 135
10. Tears in Lucretius 161
11. Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers 179
12. Precibus ac lacrimis: Tears in Roman Historiographers 209
13. The Weeping Wise: Stoic and Epicurean Consolations in Seneca's 99th Epistle 235
14. Statius and the Weeping Emperor (Silv. 2.5): Tears as a Means of Communication in the Amphitheatre 253
15. Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 277
16. Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome 297
17. Meleager's Sweet Tears: Observations on Weeping and Pleasure 311
18. Tears of the Bereaved: Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in Context 335
19. Tears of Pathos, Repentance and Bliss: Crying and Salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa 367
20. Fortune's Laughter and a Bureaucrat's Tears: Sorrow, Supplication and Sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople 397
21. Mysterious Tears: The Phenomenon of Crying from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience 419
22. Crying: A Biopsychosocial Phenomenon 439
23. Backmatter 477