Автор: Halliwell, Stephen Название: Greek laughter ISBN: 0521717744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521717748 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first attempt to provide an integrated account of the bodily and psychological workings of laughter in ancient Greece. Adopting a wide chronological perspective and dealing with numerous aspects of cultural history, Halliwell shows how the theme of laughter can shed light on Greek ethical values and attitudes to life.
Автор: Golden, Mark Название: Greek sport and social status ISBN: 0292721536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292721531 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times.
Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions.
Автор: Halliwell Название: Greek Laughter ISBN: 0521889006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521889001 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first attempt to provide an integrated account of the bodily and psychological workings of laughter in ancient Greece. Adopting a wide chronological perspective and dealing with numerous aspects of cultural history, Halliwell shows how the theme of laughter can shed light on Greek ethical values and attitudes to life.
Описание: What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? 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? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects.
Автор: Wickberg Daniel Название: The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America ISBN: 0801456665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801456664 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4634.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Автор: Edward M. Harris, David M. Lewis, Mark Woolmer Название: The Ancient Greek Economy : Markets, Households and City-States ISBN: 1108456170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108456173 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Автор: Ben C. Fisher Название: Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets ISBN: 146963662X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469636627 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2356.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humour of the Southern Highlander. Mountain humour, like all folk humour, typically arises out of a life situation. Fisher`s work, edited by his wife Sally following his passing, relates many of the stories and tales that he had heard over the course of his life.
Описание: This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world`s leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent economi
Автор: Gorski Название: The Roman Forum ISBN: 0521192447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521192446 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40867.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. For every imperial structure around the Forum`s central core, this book provides a coherent architectural history, a summary of the most important past research, plans and elevations, and detailed color reconstructions showing the stages in the Forum`s architectural evolution from Augustus (14 CE) through the mid-fourth century.
Автор: Buxton Tonia Название: Eat Greek for a Week ISBN: 1910536075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910536070 Издательство: Bonnier Books Рейтинг: Цена: 2523.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Eat Greek for a Week, cook and television personality Tonia Buxton shows how the culinary wonders of Greece can lead to a happy, healthy and rewarding diet.
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