by Mary Beard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780520287587
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«Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up» is Mary Beard’s historical essay, in paperback.
What did the Romans find funny? Mary Beard traces Roman humour in writings on rhetoric, satires, and a surviving joke book. Laughter appears in the courts, the imperial court, and the spectacles; the author examines its uses and limits, and wonders whether we can still manage to understand Roman jokes.
Text in English, 336 pages. Volume 71 of the Sather Classical Lectures series.
For readers interested in the history of Rome, classical culture, and humour as a social and historical phenomenon.
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Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements. She also authored several books on women's role in history including On Understanding Women (1931), America Through Women's Eyes, and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946), her major work. In addition, she collaborated with her husband, historian Charles Austin Beard, as coauthor of seven textbooks, most notably The Rise of American Civilization (1927), two volumes, and America in Midpassage: A Study of the Idea of Civilization (1939) and The American Spirit (1942), the third and fourth volume of The Rise of American Civilization series. A standalone book, Basic History of the United States, was their best-selling work.
