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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Apesar de estarem carregados de razão nas suas reivindicações (também já fui Recibo Verde embora trabalhasse numa empresa a tempo inteiro como funcionária normal), não me revejo nestas petições pois não falam de quem trabalha legitimamente a RV (por opção, normalmente) e paga todos os meses a Segurança Social, mesmo que não ganhe nada, e não tem grandes direitos (e não tem tempo nem paciência para andar a abrir e fechar Atividade e a a perder dias nas Finanças e Seg. Social), talvez até na ilusão da longínqua (e cada vez mais difícil de se concretizar) reforma.