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Greek laughter : a study in cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity /
This is the first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctiv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Greek laughter in theory and practice
- Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men
- Sympotic elation and resistance to death
- Ritual laughter and the renewal of life
- Aischrology, shame and old comedy
- Greek philosophy and the ethics of ridicule
- Greek laughter and the problem of the absurd
- The intermittencies of laughter in Menander's social world
- Lucian and the laughter of life and death
- Laughter denied, laughter deferred: the antigelastic tendencies of early Christianity.