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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
Category: History | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, fil ...Show more
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
Category: No Category | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
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 ...Show more
Myth - Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures by G. S. Kirk
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed s ...Show more
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