By Thorsten Fögen, Thorsten Fogen
This quantity offers a variety of contributions that examine the cultural, sociological and communicative importance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers conceal the time from the 8th century BCE till past due antiquity and take note of a extensive number of literary genres reminiscent of epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the radical. the gathering additionally includes papers from sleek socio-psychology.
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Cairns Abstract: The gesture of veiling accompanies weeping, grief and mourning in Greek art and literature from the earliest periods onwards. The covering of the head, face or eyes typically expresses a sensitivity to the reactions and judgements of other people. This sensitivity, frequently identified in our sources as aQd¾r, indicates the contextual specificity of the impulse to weep openly and serves as an illustration of the fact that emotions may have other emotions as their objects. At the same time, like weeping itself, veiling is a demonstrative gesture which not only conceals but also displays one s emotions.
This may probably be interpreted in the sense of a relief – an effect whose significance has been emphasized in modern scholarship (Berkenbusch 1985: 12 – 20). The second reason given is the honour for the dead which consists in weeping and cutting hair (Od. 14 What a sad matter death is becomes clear in the Nekyia in the Odyssey from the fact that Odysseus encounters with the Trojan heroes in the underworld are accompanied by tears in many cases (Od. 466). (4) A fourth situation which gives cause to weeping is fear.
Hence, in the case of the lamentation for Patroclus, Achilles, together with Thetis, leads the wailing Myrmidons (Il. 5 – 17). Moreover, all the Argives also join in the dirge for Achilles (Od. 61). What is specific for the use of co÷m, which, as mentioned above, is employed above all for the ritual lamentation of the dead, is the fact that a combatant s announcement to an adversary that his mother would not be able to bewail him implies the brutality and uncompromising nature of his action (Il.