| Juan Luís Cebrían entrevistado por Ana Sousa Dias no programa Por Outro Lado, hoje na 2: - Foi o primeiro director do diário "El País", ao qual permanece ligado agora como administrador delegado da Prisa, o maior grupo de comunicação social de Espanha que engloba igualmente a Cadena Ser, o Canal +, a CNN+, a rede de livrarias Crisol e a editora Alfaguara, entre outras empresas. Estudou Filosofia e Jornalismo e é autor de vários ensaios sobre temáticas políticas e sociais. Mas foi na qualidade de autor de ficção que Juan Luís Cebrian esteve em Portugal para o lançamento do livro "Francomoribundia", onde percorre o período entre a agonia de Franco e o golpe militar de 23 de Fevereiro de 1981.
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It's all Greek to me ;-D
Stephen Halliwell GREEK LAUGHTER A study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity In the third century BC, when Roman ambassadors were negotiating with the Greek city of Tarentum, an ill-judged laugh put paid to any hope of peace. Ancient writers disagree about the exact cause of the mirth, but they agree that Greek laughter was the final straw in driving the Romans to war. One account points the finger at the bad Greek of the leading Roman ambassador, Postumius. It was so ungrammatical and strangely accented that the Tarentines could not conceal their amusement. The historian Dio Cassius, by contrast, laid the blame on the Romans’ national dress. “So far from receiving them decently”, he wrote, “the Tarentines laughed at the Roman toga among other things. It was the city garb, which we use in the Forum. And the envoys had put this on, whether to make a suitably dignified impression or out of fear – thinking that it would make the Tarentines respect them. But in fact g...
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