By Vera Pavlova
𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅:
𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒏, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒚, 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅.
- Vera Pavlova
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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