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Mary Beard

Laughter in Ancient Rome

On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

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Laughter in Ancient Rome is a masterwork, simultaneously a sophisticated work of historical and literary scholarship and an unputdownable read. Beard never loses sight of the specificities of Roman culture, yet she encompasses an extraordinary range of ancient and modern theorizing. Her book will appeal to psychologists and anthropologists, as well as to classicists and indeed anyone who has ever thought about the much-debated question of why we laugh. -William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity With a bounty of suggestive and unfailingly inte… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-27716-8
  • EAN: 9780520277168
  • Produktnummer: 15477072
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H16.1 cm x B22.9 cm x D3.1 cm 638 g
  • Abbildungen: 12 b-w illus.
  • Gewicht: 638
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. Her many books include The Roman Triumph and The Fires of Vesuvius.

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