Laughter in ancient Rome : on joking, tickling, and cracking up

Title:

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.

Subject Term:

Laughter -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.

Latin wit and humor -- History and criticism.

Geographic Term:

Rome -- Social life and customs.

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