Antika skratt - Romersk humor i satir och komedi
This essay approaches the humour in Rome during the Republic and the Empire, using comedies and satires as sources. The authors used are Plautus, Terence, Horace, Persius, Martial and Juvenal. With these authors’ work as a basis this essay explains what the public might have considered as funny in each genre, and who this public might have been. It presents the themes, situations and eventual pers