Tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity : an introduction / Thorsten Fögen -- Tears and crying in archaic Greek poetry (especially Homer) / Sabine Föllinger -- Weeping and veiling : grief, display and concealment in ancient Greek culture / Doulas L. Cairns -- Tragic tears and gender / Ann Suter -- Dangerous tears? Platonic provocations and Aristotelic answers / Roland Baumgarten -- Tears and crying in Hellenic historiography : dacryology from Herodotus to Polybius / Donald Lateiner -- Women's tears in ancient Roman ritual / Darja Sterbenc Erker -- Tears in Lucretius / Christina A. Clark -- Tears in Propertius, Ovid and Greek Epistolographers / Thorsten Fögen -- Precibus ac lacrimis : tears in Roman historiographers / Loretana de Libero -- The weeping wise : stoic and epicurean consolations in Seneca's 99th epistle / Margaret Graver -- Statius and the weeping emperor (Silv. 2.5) : tears as a means of communication in the amphitheatre / Helmut Krasser -- Tears in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Donald Lateiner -- Weeping statues, weeping gods and prodigies from Republican to early-Christian Rome / Anthony Corbeill -- Meleager's sweet terars : observations on weeping and pleasure / David Konstan -- Tears of the bereaved : Plutarch's Consolatio ad uxorem in context / Stefan Schorn -- Tears of pathos, repentance and bliss : crying and salvation in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa / Ilaria Ramelli -- Fortune's laughter and a bureaucrat's tears : sorrow, supplication and sovereignty in Justinianic Constantinople / Charles F. Pazdernik -- Mysterious tears : the phenomenon of crying from the perspective of social neuroscience / Arvid Kappas -- Crying : a biopsychosocial phenomenon / Ad J.J.M. Vingerhoets, Lauren M. Bylsma & Jonathan Rottenberg.