Laughter in Ancient Rome (86 page)

plants, laughter-causing,
25
,
28–29
,
224n8

Plato, epigrams of,
78

Plautus: banquets in,
236n47
; funny words of,
56
; monkey tropes of,
162
; parasites in,
257n82
;
scurrae
in,
153
,
258n99
; stage directions for,
16
,
223n51

—Amphitruo,
Greek sources of,
90

—Aulularia,
223n52

—Persa,
joke collections in,
203

—Pseudolus,
16
,
17

—Rope,
puns in,
56
,
232nn15–16

—Stichus,
parasite of,
149–50
,
203
,
257nn83
,
86

—Truculentus,
masks in,
263n53

Plaza, Maria,
171
,
264n72

Pliny the Elder, death of,
24

—Natural History,
224n3
; on bodily peculiarities,
25
,
42–43
; laughter in,
24–27
,
83
,
84
; on magical springs,
25–26
; on Saturnalia,
237n56
; scope of,
24
; sources of,
26–27
,
30
,
224n11
; spleen in,
25
,
224n6
; tickling in,
34–35
; on Zeuxis,
173

Pliny the Younger, on inappropriate jokes,
131
,
252n11

Plutarch:
apophthegmata
of,
202
; on Attic wit,
94–95
,
204
,
245n94
; on Cercopes,
262n38
; citing of Menander,
244n75
; on court jesters,
255n49
; on flatterers,
257n87
; jokes in,
189
; on laughter,
27–28
,
58
; life of Cicero,
101
,
102–3
; place in laughter culture,
88
; on Spartan laughter,
93–94
; on Sulla,
130
. Works:
How to Tell a Flatterer form a Friend,
163
;
Questions,
89
;
Saying of the Spartans,
202
,
274n70
;
Sayings of Kings and Commanders,
189
,
202
;
Table Talk,
89

Politian, on Virgil’s fourth Eclogue,
241n54

Pompeii: House of the Dioscuri,
261n34
; House of the Tragic Poet,
58
,
59
,
234n25
; monkey images at,
162–63
,
261nn32
,
34

Pomponius (poet), bodily peculiarity of,
25
,
42

Pomponius Mela, on laughter-causing water,
26

Porphyry:
The Introduction,
33
; on laughter,
33–34

Porson, Richard,
212
,
276n3

Posidonius, on monkeys,
164–65

Postumius Megellus, Lucius: sneer at Tarentines,
4
,
6

Powell, Enoch: barber joke of,
213
,
276n4

power-laughter relationship,
x
,
6
; in Roman laughter,
3–4
,
17
,
77
,
106
,
128–29
,
197
,
220n10
,
252n2
; sexual humor in,
106
; wish to please in,
12

power relations: contestation by laughter,
6
; between emperors and subjects,
136
; human-divine,
159
; master-slave,
129

primates: Aristotle on,
261n31
; classification of,
260n17
; laughter of,
46–47
,
161
,
231n82
; in Roman laughter culture,
160–61
.
See also
apes; monkeys

Problems,
Aristotelian: tickling in,
43
,
230n73

Prudentius,
The Crowns of Martyrdom,
154–55
,
259n102

pseudo-Ovid,
De Vetula,
260n14

psychic energy, release through laughter,
39
,
40
,
229nn61
,
64

puns: Cicero’s,
99–100
,
245n1
; in Juvenal,
258n88
; in
Philogelos,
194
; in Plautus,
56
,
232nn15–16
; recovery of,
56
; visual,
162–63

Purcell, N.,
256n64

Pygmies (Ituri Forest), laughter of,
45–46
,
231n79

Pylades (pantomime actor),
79

Querolus,
scripted laughter in,
223n52

Quinn, Kenneth,
171

Quintilian, death of family,
123

—
Handbook on Oratory:
Cicero in,
103
,
123
,
251n93
; Cicero’s jokes in,
104
,
126–27
; cookery analogies in,
124
; on double entendres,
99–100
; jokes in,
54–56
,
123–26
,
139
,
232nn11
,
13
; on laughter,
28
,
37
,
224n17
;
ridiculus
in,
125
; on
scurrae,
124
; sources of,
123
; textual transmission of,
55–56
; truth and falsehood in,
125–26
,
129
,
152
; types of wit in,
115
,
250n69
; on
urbanitas,
125
; on Virgil’s fourth
Eclogue,
83
,
241n54
; words for smiles,
74