Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic

by Anthony Corbeill

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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 offered two explanations for why abusive language proliferated in Roman oratory. The first asserts...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691602239

ISBN13:9780691602233

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:266 Pages

Weight:0.83 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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