Author: Beard, Mary
Price: $18.29
Category:Humor
Publication Date:2014-06-25T00:00:01Z
Pages:336
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0520277163
ISBN:13:9780520277168
Draws on a wide range of period writings, from essays on rhetoric to a surviving joke book, to explore the culture of humor in ancient Rome, offering insight into what was considered funny at the time and how everyday Romans expressed their humor. By the author of The Fires of Vesuvius.
