Tears In The Graeco Roman World
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Tears In The Graeco Roman World
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Author : Thorsten Fögen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Tears In The Graeco Roman World written by Thorsten Fögen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Greek Laughter And Tears
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Author : Margaret Alexiou
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-05
Greek Laughter And Tears written by Margaret Alexiou and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-05 with History categories.
Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance
Bodies And Boundaries In Graeco Roman Antiquity
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Author : Thorsten Fögen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-01-13
Bodies And Boundaries In Graeco Roman Antiquity written by Thorsten Fögen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Epicureanism And The Gospel Of John
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Author : Fergus J. King
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Epicureanism And The Gospel Of John written by Fergus J. King and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Religion categories.
The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then have been easy for an Epicurean to become a Christian or vice-versa? Fergus J. King suggests that such claims become unlikely when detailed analyses of the two traditions are set out and compared. The first step in his examination looks at evidence for potential engagement between the two traditions historically and geographically. Both traditions address concerns about the good life, death, and the divine. However, this correspondence soon unravels as their worldviews are far from identical. Shared terms (like Saviour), their respective rituals, and teaching about community life reveal substantial differences in ethos and behaviour.
Ekphrasis Vision And Persuasion In The Book Of Revelation
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Author : Robyn J. Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2015-11-13
Ekphrasis Vision And Persuasion In The Book Of Revelation written by Robyn J. Whitaker and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-13 with Religion categories.
Robyn. J. Whitaker interprets the Book of Revelation within the context of ancient rhetoric and religion. She argues that the author of Revelation uses a popular rhetorical tool, ekphrasis, to paint word-pictures of God that compete with material images to both critique image-making and simultaneously make an absent God present.
Rabbinic Body Language Non Verbal Communication In Palestinian Rabbinic Literature Of Late Antiquity
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Author : Catherine Hezser
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-01-16
Rabbinic Body Language Non Verbal Communication In Palestinian Rabbinic Literature Of Late Antiquity written by Catherine Hezser and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-16 with Religion categories.
In Rabbinic Body Language Catherine Hezser examines the literary representation of non-verbal communication within rabbinic circles and in encounters with others in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity.
Why Only Humans Weep
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Author : Ad Vingerhoets
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Why Only Humans Weep written by Ad Vingerhoets and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Psychology categories.
Crying has fascinated mankind for millenia. Since ancient times, we have known that emotional tears are a unique human characteristic. Unsurprisingly, over hundreds of years, scholars from different backgrounds have speculated about the origin and functions of human tears. According to Charles Darwin, tears fulfilled no adaptive function. And yet, this seems in sharp contrast to statements in the popular media about the significance of crying. Crying is thought to bring relief and is considered healthy - and withholding tears unhealthy. In addition, tears have been said to inhibit aggression in assaulters and to promote social bonding. Perhaps that could explain why tears have been so important in our evolution. Ad Vingerhoets is one of the few scientists in the world to have studied crying. He examines in Why only humans weep which claims about crying are scientifically tenable - which are fact and which are fiction? Though a psychologist, he doesn't just restrict himself to the current psychological literature, but also explores work in evolutionary biology, neurosciences, theology, art, history, and anthropology to provide an integrated perspective on this complex phenomenon. Written throughout in an academically accessible style, this book is groundbreaking in contributing to a modern scientific understanding of crying. It will have broad appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists.
Blood Sweat And Tears
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-06-22
Blood Sweat And Tears written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with History categories.
Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.
Augustan Poetry New Trends And Revaluations
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Author : Paulo Martins
language : en
Publisher: Paulo Martins
Release Date : 2018-12-31
Augustan Poetry New Trends And Revaluations written by Paulo Martins and has been published by Paulo Martins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Ancient Greek Roots Of Human Rights
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Author : Rachel Hall Sternberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-06-29
The Ancient Greek Roots Of Human Rights written by Rachel Hall Sternberg and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with History categories.
Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the parallel confluences of cultural factors facing ancient Greeks and eighteenth-century Europeans that facilitated the creation and transmission of humane values across history. Rachel Hall Sternberg argues that precursors to the concept of human rights exist in the ancient articulation of emotion, though the ancient Greeks, much like eighteenth-century European societies, often failed to live up to those values. Merging the history of ideas with cultural history, Sternberg examines literary themes upholding empathy and human dignity from Thucydides’s and Xenophon’s histories to Voltaire’s Candide, and from Greek tragic drama to the eighteenth-century novel. She describes shared impacts of the trauma of war, the appeal to reason, and the public acceptance of emotion that encouraged the birth and rebirth of humane values.