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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:	Plato. Socrates. Laughter. Comic, The. Wit and humor.

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