读过 Laughter in Ancient Rome 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
还有点意思，不过虽然前言里说会有点逗乐，其实基本没有，还是非常学术甚至有点学究气的书，可能本来就不是给general public看的，所以很多古典reference甚至语言学上的梗我懂不了觉得有点迷失也是没办法……感觉花了太长时间去铺垫和讲解“判断标准”，实际的案例和分析占的比例太低了……其实想要看看古罗马人的笑点在哪里，后半本就够了，有几个还真挺好笑的比如“你妈去过罗马吗？”“没有但是我爸去过好几次”
Laughter in Ancient Rome [Book] Douban
author:
Mary Beard
publishing house:
University of California Press
2014
- 6
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing—from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book—Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient “monkey business” to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really “get” the Romans’ jokes?
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing—from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book—Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient “monkey business” to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really “get” the Romans’ jokes?