Translation updates Cicero's treatise on jokes as 'weapons'
Date Time Translation updates Cicero’s treatise on jokes as ‘weapons’ “Memmius thinks he’s such a towering figure that when he comes into the Forum, he has to duck under the Fabian arch,” quipped Cicero, a pointed joke that still works more than 2,000 years later. Michael Fontaine’s lively new translation of Cicero’s ancient text on humor, “How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor,” amuses as well as instructs – as Cicero, called by his enemies “the stand-up Consul,” no doubt intended. Cicero’s treatise is part of his longer masterpiece, “On the I...
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