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Title:
Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up
Author:
Beard, Mary, 1955-
ISBN:
9780520277168
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
x, 319 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Sather classical lectures ; volume seventy-one
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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