Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews. His most recent book, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), has been awarded an international prize, the 'Premio Europeo d'Estetica' for 2008.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men 3. Sympotic elation and resistance to death 4. Ritual laughter and the renewal of life 5. Aischrology, shame and Old Comedy 6. Greek philosophy and the ethics of ridicule 7. Greek laughter and the problem of the absurd 8. The intermittencies of laughter in Menander's social world 9. Lucian and the laughter of life and death 10. Laughter denied, laughter deferred: the antigelastic tendencies of early Christianity Appendix 1. The Greek (body) language of laughter and smiles Appendix 2. Gelastic faces in visual art.
1. Introduction 2. Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men 3. Sympotic elation and resistance to death 4. Ritual laughter and the renewal of life 5. Aischrology, shame and Old Comedy 6. Greek philosophy and the ethics of ridicule 7. Greek laughter and the problem of the absurd 8. The intermittencies of laughter in Menander's social world 9. Lucian and the laughter of life and death 10. Laughter denied, laughter deferred: the antigelastic tendencies of early Christianity Appendix 1. The Greek (body) language of laughter and smiles Appendix 2. Gelastic faces in visual art.
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