A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour - Agora Harder!

by R. Drew Griffith, Robert B. Marks

Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. Strange and outlandish activities abounded - including somebody accidentally exposing himself while dancing sideways at his wedding (those wearing bed sheets didn't wear underwear) and a group of drunk young men thinking their house is sinking at sea, and tossing all their furniture out the windows. In this new edition, R. Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks take you on a lively and funny journey through the more bizarre activities of the ancient world, venturing out as far as Egypt, Babylon, and Scandinavia, ranging everywhere from moochers to quacks to shrews to perhaps the oldest laundromat joke in history, and even revealing the most terrible thing you can do to anybody involving a radish.

316 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 2011

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this book for school, was sufficiently quirky and humorous! Was at times hard to follow with so many examples, but much more digestible than most textbooks.