Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- 8 ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature
- 9 Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic?
- 10 Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues
- 11 Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh Century CE
- 12 Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
- Appendix: CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum
8 - ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature
from PART III - BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- 8 ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature
- 9 Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic?
- 10 Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues
- 11 Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh Century CE
- 12 Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
- Appendix: CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum
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- Greek Laughter and TearsAntiquity and After, pp. 125 - 145Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017