Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER TO LUCIAN
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- 5 ‘Tantalus Ever in Tears’: The Greek Anthology as a Source of Emotions in Late Antiquity
- 6 ‘Do You Think You're Clever? Solve This Riddle, Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry
- 7 Philogelos: An Anti-Intellectual Joke-Book
- 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
6 - ‘Do You Think You're Clever? Solve This Riddle, Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry
from PART II - ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
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
- PART II ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
- 5 ‘Tantalus Ever in Tears’: The Greek Anthology as a Source of Emotions in Late Antiquity
- 6 ‘Do You Think You're Clever? Solve This Riddle, Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry
- 7 Philogelos: An Anti-Intellectual Joke-Book
- 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. 87 - 103Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017