Laughter in Ancient Rome (88 page)

Schulz, F.,
274n67

Scipio Nasica, jokes about,
200
,
270n23

Scott, Sophie,
229n62

Scruton, Roger,
47
,
229n63

sculpture, ancient: laughter in,
57

Scurr, Ruth,
237n62

scurrae,
152–55
; as antitypes of
dicacitas,
249n56
; Christian instance of,
154–55
; comparison with orators,
121–22
,
129
; competition with peasant,
126
; cultural longevity of,
155
; in Horace,
204
; jokes of,
103
,
118
,
121
,
124
,
152
,
153
; murder of Elagabalus,
154
; and parasites,
153
; in Plautus,
153
,
258n99
; positive valuation of,
154
; Quintilian on,
124
; in Roman imaginary,
154
; in Roman literature,
153–54
; “Romanness” of,
153
; social role of,
153
; varied usages of,
258nn98
,
101

scurrilitas:
accusations against Cicero,
152–53
,
246n15
; pride in,
155
; victims of,
147

Semus (historian),
174
,
264n81

senators, Roman: stifling of laughter,
2–3
,
6

Seneca the Elder,
246n14
; Cicero’s jokes in,
103
; laughter in,
79–81
; on Vatinius,
122

Seneca the Younger:
Apocolocyntosis,
64
,
235n45
,
236n50
; on Caligula,
134
; on jesters,
145
; use of
arridere,
150–51

Serapeum, destruction of,
269n17

Serenus Sammonicus,
224n6

Servius, on mime,
263n54

sesērenai
(parting of lips),
6

sex, discursive practices surrounding,
67

Sharrock, A.,
223n49

Sicily, slave revolts in,
152
,
258n94

Sidon, jokes about,
191–92
,
269n7
,
271n34

Silk, Michael,
31
,
226n31

Silverne, Stephen,
276n4

simia
(monkey), and
similis,
162
,
261nn26–27
.
See also
monkeys

Skinner, Quentin,
30–31
,
33
,
225n22
; on Hobbes,
41

skōmma
(joking),
76
,
207
; abusive,
32

slave revolts, Sicilian,
152
,
258n94

slaves, relations with masters,
137–40

Smallwood, E. M.,
254nn42
,
44
,
255n46

smiles: archaic,
57
,
233n20
; Chesterfield on,
75
,
240n22
; cultural significance of,
74
; Greek vocabulary for,
73
,
239n13
; Latin vocabulary for,
73–76
; in Macrobius,
73–74
,
75
,
239n16
; medieval,
75
; in modern European languages,
74
;
Mona Lisa
‘s,
233n22
; in Roman culture,
74–76
; in Virgil,
73
,
84

Smith, M.,
229n62

social hierarchy: effect on laughter,
28
; inversion of,
63
,
65
,
235n47
,
264n72

Socrates: facial expression of,
25
; subversive repartee of,
153

soldiers, Caesar’s: jokes of,
146
,
231n4

Soli (Cilicia), laughter associated with,
177

Sommerstein, A.,
257n86

Sonnabend, H.,
240n30

Sparta, culture of laughter in,
93–94

Spawforth, Tony,
91

speeches, epilogues of,
125

spleen, role in laughter,
25
,
29
,
224n6

spongers.
See
parasites

statues, Greek: non-smiling,
30

Stoicism, Cicero’s jokes on,
102

Strabo (geographer): on Kyme,
191
,
192
,
271n31
; on monkeys,
164–65

Strabo, Julius Caesar: in
On the Orator,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
116
,
120
,
223n1
,
249nn58
,
61

subjects, laughter at experimenters,
229n58

subridere
(to laugh),
73
,
75

Suda,
269n10
; on
Philogelos,
188

Suetonius,
73
; on Caesar’s joking,
252n2
; on Caligula,
134
; on Claudius’s quips,
132
; on
copreae,
143
;
Life of Augustus,
134
; mimicry in,
263n64
; on Vespasian,
133–34
,
146

Sulla: love of laughter,
129–30
,
207
; satyric comedies of,
130