Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic by Anthony Corbeill

Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic

Anthony Corbeill

266 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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 demo...

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