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dc.contributor.authorChrysanthou, Chrysanthos S.en
dc.coverage.spatialPisaen
dc.creatorChrysanthou, Chrysanthos S.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-12T17:12:18Z
dc.date.available2024-01-12T17:12:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/65971en
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the literary use and significance of laughter in Plutarch’s biographies. It focuses on a number of examples from Plutarch’s Lives where the protagonists, or other secondary characters, or even groups of people appear to laugh in a derisory and mocking manner. This sort of laughter, as I argue, can point to the superior character traits and/or moral status of the laugher; or it can signal the faulty state of mind and inadequacies of character of the persons who laugh or those who are being laughed at. In that case laughter is ominous and prepares the reader for an upcoming disaster. This function of laughter in Plutarch’s Lives is aligned with Herodotus’ use of laughter in the Historiesen
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherFabrizio Serra Editoreen
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universal*
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rightsOpen Accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/*
dc.sourceRivista di cultura classica e medioevaleen
dc.source.urihttps://www.libraweb.net/articoli3.php?chiave=201906501&rivista=65&articolo=201906501002en
dc.subjectPlutarch's livesen
dc.titleLaughter in Plutarch’s livesen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen
dc.description.volume61
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.startingpage43
dc.description.endingpage56
dc.author.faculty008 Φιλοσοφική Σχολή / Faculty of Letters
dc.author.departmentΤμήμα Κλασικών Σπουδών και Φιλοσοφίας / Department of Classics and Philosophy
dc.type.uhtypeArticleen
dc.contributor.orcidChrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. [0000-0002-9843-1153]
dc.type.subtypeSCIENTIFIC_JOURNALen
dc.gnosis.orcid0000-0002-9843-1153


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