CONTENTS

List of Illustrations  viii

Preface xi
Notes on Contributors xv

  1 Introduction  1
Margaret Alexiou and Douglas Cairns

PART I  ANCIENT KEYNOTES: FROM HOMER

TO LUCIAN
  2 Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature  27
Richard Seaford
  3 Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian 36
Stephen Halliwell
  4 Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian 54
Calum Maciver

PART II  ANCIENT MODELS, BYZANTINE

COLLECTIONS: EPIGRAMS, RIDDLES AND JOKES
  5 ‘Tantalus Ever in Tears’: The Greek Anthology as a Source
of Emotions in Late Antiquity 75
Judith Herrin
  6 ‘Do You Think You’re Clever? Solve This Riddle,
Then!’ The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry 87
Simone Beta
 7 Philogelos: An Anti-Intellectual Joke-Book 104
Stephanie West

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PART III  BYZANTINE PERSPECTIVES: TEARS

AND LAUGHTER, THEORY AND PRAXIS
  8 ‘Messages of the Soul’: Tears, Smiles, Laughter and
Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature 125
Martin Hinterberger
  9 Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic? 146
Aglae Pizzone
10 Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom
and the Riot of the Statues 166
Jan R. Stenger
11 Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh
Century ce187
Ioannis Papadogiannakis
12 Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation
in Early Byzantium 199
Susan Ashbrook Harvey

PART IV  LAUGHTER, POWER AND SUBVERSION

13 Mime and the Dangers of Laughter in Late Antiquity 219
Ruth Webb
14 Laughter on Display: Mimic Performances and
the Danger of Laughing in Byzantium 232
Przemysław Marciniak
15 The Power of Amusement and the Amusement of
Power: The Princely Frescoes of St Sophia, Kiev,
and their Connections to the Byzantine World 243
Elena Boeck
16 Laughing at Eros and Aphrodite: Sexual Inversion
and its Resolution in the Classicising Arts of Medieval
Byzantium263
Alicia Walker

PART V  GENDER, GENRE AND LANGUAGE:

LOSS AND SURVIVAL
17 Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles: To Laugh
and Cry in the Komnenian Novel 291
Ingela Nilsson
18 Do Brothers Weep? Male Grief, Mourning, Lament
and Tears in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium 312
Margaret Mullett

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19 Laments by Nicetas Choniates and Others for the Fall

of Constantinople in 1204 338
Michael Angold
20 ‘Words Filled With Tears’: Amorous Discourse
as Lamentation in the Palaiologan Romances 353
Panagiotis Agapitos
21 The Tragic, the Comic and the Tragicomic in Cretan
Renaissance Literature 375
David Holton
22 Belisarius in the Shadow Theatre: The Private Calvary
of a Legendary General 390
Anna Stavrakopoulou
23 Afterword 403
Roderick Beaton

Appendix 
  CHYROGLES, or The Girl With Two Husbands 413
Bibliography 420
Index Locorum 472
Index Rerum 482

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