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Laughter in Ancient Rome - On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Paperback)
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Laughter in Ancient Rome - On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Paperback)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 71
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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? 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?
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