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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:40:19 -0500
Subject: Re: tears/weeping : CORRECTION
From: Paolo Asso <passo@Princeton.EDU>
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SORRY -- Of course, the tears at Carthage are Scipio's!

As far as I know, the most recent book on the subject is

Laura Faranda, Le lacrime degli eroi : pianto e identit=E0 nella Grecia antic=
a
(Vibo Valentia: Qualecultura, 1992),

but I also know that Andreola Rossi (Harvard) recently published an article
on the tears of SCIPIO before the ruins of Carthage.  Sorry, no reference!

paolo

on 3/9/02 10:07 AM, Diana Wright at dgw1@nyu.edu wrote:

> Then there is that fine scene in "Quo Vadis" where Nero ceremoniously wee=
ps
> into a little glass vase for Petronius.
>=20
> DW
>=20
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>=20
>> Dodds has a bit on the "lability" of Greek heroes in Greeks and the
>> Irrational.  I don't recall whether he gives refs.
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>> Best,
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>> Dan
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>> Ulrich Schmitzer wrote:
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>>> Dear list,
>>> is there a (recent) study on tears/weeping in antiquity, esp. in
>>> Rome? I vaguely remember to have seen something like this, but I
>>> can't remember the bibliographical details.
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>>> Thank you in advance
>>> U.S.
>>> PD Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer
>>> Institut fuer Alte Sprachen - Latein
>>> Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
>>> http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/home.html
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>>=20
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