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Classical Literature and Philology

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Comedy

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Violence In Plautus: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Performance, Christopher Bungard Mar 2015

Violence In Plautus: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Performance, Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard's contribution to the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, 2015.

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Comedy, Violence, And Undergraduates, Christopher Bungard Mar 2015

Comedy, Violence, And Undergraduates, Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bumgard's contribution to the CAMWS Annual Meeting: Boulder, Colorado, 2015.

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Lies, Lyres, And Laughter: Surplus Potential In The Homeric Hymn To Hermes, Christopher Bungard Mar 2015

Lies, Lyres, And Laughter: Surplus Potential In The Homeric Hymn To Hermes, Christopher Bungard

Christopher Bungard

This paper seeks to reevaluate scholarly responses to the laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Using Zupančič's recent work on comedy, I argue that Hermes intentionally exploits surplus potentials that emerge from splits in the perceived unity and completeness of Zeus's cosmos. Through surpluses (a tortoise-lyre, a baby cattle rustler, a baby master of legal speech), Hermes is able to attain his place among the Olympians. The laughter of the audience is one final expression of this acceptance of Hermes and his potential.

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