Plato's laughter : Socrates as satyr and comical hero /

Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato's dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also ref...

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Main Author: Tanner, Sonja, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017].
Series:SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Call Number: B398.C63 T36 2017
 
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