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Document Details : Title: Notes on Non-Verbal Humour in the Historia Augusta Author(s): REEKMANS, Tony Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 32 Date: 2002 Pages: 315-336 DOI: 10.2143/AS.32.0.64 Abstract : In the field of non-verbal humour a distinction may be made between funny actions (facto risus conciliatus) and mimicry (depravata imitatio, vultus gestusque ridiculus). It is on these two aspects in the Historia Augusta that the present paper deals. |
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