Laughter in Ancient Rome (90 page)

—Eclogues:
mime parodies of,
169
,
263n57

visual images, ancient: of laughter,
49
,
56–59
,
162–63
,
165
,
166
,
233n24
; religious,
175

Vitalis (mime actor),
169

Vollgraff, C. G.,
267n127

Volumnius Eutrapelus, Publius,
105
,
113

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew,
91
,
274n67
;
Rome’s Cultural Revolution,
87

Walsh, P. G.,
266n104

Warner, Marina,
85

water, laughter-causing,
25–26

West, S.,
271n39

Whigham, Peter,
171

Whitehead, A. N.,
225n24

whoopee cushions, Elagabalus’s use of,
77
,
128

Wilkins, J.,
275n81

Wilkins, A. S.,
249n55

Winkler, Jack:
Auctor & Actor,
181
,
183

wit: collections of,
204
,
206
; construction of identity through,
247n29
; as educated insolence,
33
; moralizing,
206
; Peripatetic terms for,
249n65
; Sicilian,
204
.
See also
jokes

wit, Athenian,
94–95
,
204
; Cicero on,
244n93
; Roman admiration for,
94

wit, Roman: Cicero’s,
100–108
; collections of,
202
; desirable types of,
115
;
salsum,
115
; typology of,
114
,
250nn67
,
69
; vocabulary for,
76

wit, Roman oratorical: analogies with cookery,
124
; changing terms for,
114
; Cicero’s deployment of,
105–8
;
dicto
and
re,
112
,
113
,
123
; in epilogues of speeches,
125
; exploitation of names,
120
; forms of,
111
,
113–15
; inappropriate use of,
103–4
,
112–13
,
118–19
,
123
,
129
; old Latin terms for,
111
,
249n54
; in
On the Orator,
111–15
; Quintilian on,
123–26
; restraint in,
120–21
; rules for using,
112–13
,
117
,
120–21
,
122
; spontaneous,
111
,
127
,
249n55
.
See also
laughter, Roman oratorical

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
229n64

women, giggling,
3
,
157
,
219n7

women, Roman: dimples of,
158
,
259n8
; jokes of,
156
; mime actresses,
159
,
167–68
,
171
,
264n66
; in pantomime,
255n62
.
See also
laughter, Roman women’s

women, Spartan: use of ridicule,
93

Wyatt, Woodrow,
276n4

Wyles, R.,
262n50

Xanthus (master of Aesop),
138–39

Xenophon,
Symposium,
257n81
; parasite of,
149

Xerxes, at the Hellespont,
134
,
253n20

Zeno of Sidon,
153
,
258n96

Zeuxis: competition with Parrhasius,
173
; death from laughter,
14
,
172–73
,
177
; illusionism of,
173
,
234n24

Zimmerman, A.,
266n107
,
267n113

Žižek, Slavoj,
220n17
,
225n26

Zoroaster, laughter of,
25
,
83
,
242n56