Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up / Mary Beard.
Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up / Mary Beard.
Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up / Mary Beard.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
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G 2014/4918
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English
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x, 319 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introducing Roman laughter : Dio's "giggle" and Gnatho's two laughs -- Questions of laughter, ancient and modern -- The history of laughter -- Roman laughter in Latin and Greek -- The orator -- From emperor to jester -- Between human and animal, especially monkeys and asses -- The laughter lover.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
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California
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2014.
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"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts,...
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Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up / Mary Beard.
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Sather classical lectures ; volume seventy-one.
The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literauture.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.
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G 2014/4918
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74VKKelAvMmb
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0520277163 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780520277168 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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152.430937
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991022023299702626
