Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic
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Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic
By (Author) Anthony Corbeill
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Ancient history
320.901
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997
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Paperback
266
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society's norms. Previous scholarship has offere
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
