Women and Humor in Classical Greece
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521037907
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History; History - General History; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History: World; Ancient - Greece; Women's Studies - History; History / Ancient / Greece; History / General; Social Science : Women's Studies - History; General; Greece; Greek wit and humor; History and criticism; Women and literature; Women authors
First sentence: BELIEF IN THE RESTORATIVE POWER of women, produced through mingled solemnity and raucous joking, was powerful, in Greece and elsewhere.