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

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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?...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Beard, Mary, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Collection:Sather classical lectures ; v. 71.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Sujets:
To 1500
Laughter > Rome > History > To 1500.
Latin wit and humor > History and criticism.
Humour latin > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Latin wit and humor
Laughter
Manners and customs
Lachen
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
ancient literary criticism.
ancient rome.
anthropology.
approachable scholarship.
classical literature.
conversational.
cultural studies.
essays on rhetoric.
funny.
history of ancient rome.
history of laughter.
history.
humor and drama.
humor.
inviting.
jokes.
laughter.
literary analysis.
monkey business.
performing arts.
purpose of laughter.
roman culture.
roman history.
roman humor.
roman joke book.
roman writing.
sather classical lectures.
theories of humor.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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