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Author   LinkHalliwell, Stephen.
Title   LinkGreek laughter : a study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity / Stephen Halliwell.
Imprint   LinkCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Descr.   xiii, 616 p. ; 24 cm.
 
Library Info   Stacks BF575.L3 H35 2008 Regular Loan 
External   File Extension: urlContributor biographical information 
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  File Extension: urlTable of contents only 
 
Bibliogr.   Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents   Introduction: Greek laughter in theory and practice -- Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men -- Sympotic elation and resistance to death -- Ritual laughter and the renewal of life -- Aischrology, shame and old comedy -- Greek philosophy and the ethics of ridicule -- Greek laughter and the problem of the absurd -- The intermittencies of laughter in Menander’s social world -- Lucian and the laughter of life and death -- Laughter denied, laughter deferred: the antigelastic.
Abstract   Explore ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Analyzes both the theory and practice of laughter as a richly revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities.
 
Subject   LinkLaughter -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
  LinkLaughter -- Psychological aspects -- Greece.
Copies   Stacks - BF575.L3 H35 2008
Sys. no.   000585359
 
Holdings   All items