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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
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ISBN-13:
9780520287587
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.11.2015
Seiten:
319
Autor:
Mary Beard
Gewicht:
521 g
Format:
230x154x24 mm
Serie:
71, Sather Classical Lectures
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mary Beard ist Professorin für Altertumswissenschaften an der Universität Cambridge und publiziert zur Kulturgeschichte und Rezeption der griechisch-römischen Antike.
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing - from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book - Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient"monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans' jokes?