2.1. Back to the Beginning: The Tragic Tetralogy -- 2.2. Freedom and Slavery, Satyrs and Cities -- 3. The Cyclops -- 3.1. The Cyclops as Satyr Play -- 3.2. Euripides the Iconoclast -- Chapter 3. The Acharnians and the Paradox of the City -- 1. Tragedy, Comedy, and Politics -- 2.…
Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understa…
"While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present their research rather seriously. In academia, humor tends to be trivialized and…
"Humor as a topic of research has received a considerable amount of attention, but as a methodology has been severely neglected. If humor is a fundamental aspect of human experience and our understanding of what it is to be human, then to ignore the humorous as an analytical att…
