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Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic Hardcover - 1996
by Anthony Corbeill
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- Title Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic
- Author Anthony Corbeill
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 266
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9780691027395 / 0691027390
- Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7.75 x 0.88 in (25.40 x 19.69 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96000868
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.937
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Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0691027390 . Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; 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 that public rhetoric, filled with extravagant lies, was unconstrained by strictures of propriety. The second contends that invective represents an artifice borrowed from the Greeks. After a fresh reading of all extant literary works from the period, Corbeill concludes that the topics exploited in political invective arise from biases already present in Roman society. The author assesses evidence outside political…
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