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Title: LAUGHTER IN ANCIENT ROME
ON JOKING, TICKLING, AND CRACKING UP
By: Mary Beard
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520287584
ISBN 13: 9780520287587
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 15 September, 2015
Series: Sather Classical Lectures 71
Pages: 336
Description: What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects.
Synopsis: 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? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? 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?
Illustrations: 12 b/w illus.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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