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Humor in der Antike
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ISBN: 3805312466 Year: 1991 Publisher: Mainz am Rhein : Philipp von Zabern,

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Komt een Griek bij de dokter : humor in de oudheid
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ISBN: 9789025346904 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Polak & Van Gennep

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Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1107125235 0521133653 0511157681 051149632X 0511120230 0511329792 1280159596 0511045107 0511020457 9780511020452 9780511045103 0511029802 9780511029806 9780511120237 9780521811163 0521811163 9780511496325 9781280159596 9780521133654 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. Two chapters serve as an extended introduction to the topic, while the following six chapters offer varied treatments of humour and politics, looking at different times and places, but at the Carolingian world in particular. Together, they raise important and original issues about how humour was employed to articulate concepts of political power, perceptions of kingship, social relations and the role of particular texts.


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Comic invective in ancient Greek and Roman oratory
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ISBN: 3110735539 9783110735536 9783110738964 3110738961 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter.

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This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and understanding of how this technique is used in such con-texts of both Greek and Roman oratory. Despite the important scholarly work that has been done in discussing the patterns of using invective in Greek and Roman texts and contexts, there are still notable gaps in our knowledge of the issue. The introduction to, and the twelve chapters of, this volume address some understudied multi-genre and interdisciplinary topics: first, the ways in which comic invective in oratory draws on, or has implications for, comedy and other genres, or how these literary genres are influenced by oratorical theory and practice, and by contemporary socio-political circumstances, in articulating comic invective and targeting prominent individuals; second, how comic invective sustains relationships and promotes persuasion through unity and division; third, how it connects with sexuality, the human body and male/female physiology; fourth, what impact generic dichotomies, as, for example, public-private and defence-prosecution, may have upon using comic invective; and fifth, what the limitations in its use are, depending on the codes of honour and decency in ancient Greece and Rome.

Le rire des anciens : actes du colloque international (Université de Rouen, Ecole normale supérieure, 11-13 janvier 1995)
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ISBN: 2728802300 9782728802302 Year: 1998 Volume: 8 Publisher: Paris: Presses de l'École normale supérieure,

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