[PDF] How To Insult Abuse Insinuate In Classical Latin eBook

Author : Arie Sover
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350062316

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Why are things funny? How has humor changed over the centuries? How can humor be a political force? Featuring expert authors from across the globe, The Languages of Humor discusses three main types of humour: verbal, visual, and physical. Despite the differences between them, all have a common purpose, showing us in different ways the reality that we live in, and how we can reflect on that reality. To this end, the book shows how humor has been used to address such topics as the Holocaust and the Soviet Union, and why it has been controversial in cases including Charlie Hebdo. The Languages of Humor explores a subject that is of interest in a wide range of intellectual disciplines including sociology, psychology, communication, philosophy, history, social sciences, linguistics, computer science, literature, theatre, education, and cultural studies. This volume features contributions from world-leading academics, some of who have professional backgrounds in this field. This unique research-led book, which includes over 20 illustrations, offers a top-down analysis of humor studies.

Author : H S Magister
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2019-01-05
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ISBN : 9781790143696

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This is a Dictionary of "Vulgar" Latin, if you're hoping for a Dictionary of "Vulgar Latin" then this is the wrong book. It contains all the words that Latin students everywhere ask their teachers for with definitions guaranteed to make a stodgy British professor go "I say!" or "Good Lord!"

Author : Arturo Tosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108487270

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Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.

Author : Michelle Lovric
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780760716823

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"Limericks, howlers, verse & worse"--Cover.

Author : John O. Ward
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004368078

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Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1783745924

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Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.

Author : Warren S. Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0472026291

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Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.