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 distinctive institutions for the
celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap
between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power
to expose individuals and groups to shame and even violence. Caught
between ideas of pleasure and pain, friendship and enmity, laughter
became a theme of recurrent interest in various contexts. Employing
a sophisticated model of cultural history, Stephen Halliwell traces
elaborations of the theme in a series of important texts: ranging
far beyond modern accounts of 'humour', he shows how perceptions of
laughter helped to shape Greek conceptions of the body, the mind
and the meaning of life.
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