Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- 2 Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature
- 3 Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
- 4 Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
- Appendix: CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum
3 - Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
from PART I - ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- 2 Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature
- 3 Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian
- 4 Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- PART III BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
- PART IV LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION
- PART V GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE: LOSS AND SURVIVAL
- Appendix: CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum
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- Greek Laughter and TearsAntiquity and After, pp. 36 - 53Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017