Agelastas rabelais biography

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greekἀγέλαστος(agélastos, “not laughing”), from γελάω(geláō, “to laugh”). Attributed to a French coinage bygd François Rabelais (ca.1483–1494—1553).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd͡ʒəˌlæst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪd͡ʒəˌlæst/
• Hyphenation: age‧last

agelast (pluralagelasts)

1. (rare) One who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless individ.

   Antonyms:gelast(rare), laugher, cachinnator, hypergelast

   • 2005, Arkady Kovelman, Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture, Koninklijke Brill, page 50:

     As a real agelast in a comedy, he is beaten. The beating of an agelast fryst vatten the most important point of the comedy.

   • 2008, Charles Partee, The Theology of John Calvin, Westminster John Knox Press, page 10:

     Declaring with Doumergue that "Rabelais and Calvin (and Olivétan) were the creators of French literary prose,"²⁵ Bakhtin adds "Even the agelast Calvin wrote a pamphlet about relics wit

     

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     Lucian’s Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East 9780472133345, 9780472220977, 0472133349

     Table of contents :
     Contents
     Acknowledgments
     Introduction: Unquenchable Laughter
     Chapter 1. Lucian in Performance: No More Hedgehogs
     Chapter 2. Laughter-Loving Gods: Anthropomorphism, Imitation, and Morality
     Chapter 3. Rituals: Sacrificing to Hungry Gods
     Chapter 4. Passions: Worship and Desire
     Chapter 5. Politics: Cities of Gods and Men
     Chapter 6. Mediations: Oracles, Seers, and Sorcerers
     Conclusion: If There Are Gods...
     Note on Abbreviations
     Bibliography
     Index Locorum
     Index Rerum

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     Lucian’s Laughing Gods
     
     Lucian’s Laughing Gods Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East ❦
     
     Inger N.I. Kuin
     
     University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor
     
     Copyright © 2023 by Inger N.I. Kuin All rights reserved For questions or permissions, please contact [email protected] Published in the United States of America by the University of

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     Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity [1 ed.] 0521889006, 9780521889001

     Table of contents :
     Cover
     Half-title
     Title
     Copyright
     Contents
     Preface
     Note to the reader
     Abbreviations
     Chapter 1 Introduction: Greek laughter in theory and practice
     Nature and culture, bodies and minds
     The dialectic of play and seriousness
     To laugh or not to laugh?
     Chapter 2 Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men
     Between pathos and bloodlust: the range of homeric laughter
     Divine conflict and pleasure in the iliad
     Thersites and the volatility of laughter
     Sex and hilarity on olympus
     From debauchery to madness: the story of the suitors
     Epilogue: achilles’ only smile
     Chapter 3 Sympotic elation and resistance to death
     Dreaming of immortality
     Face-to-face tensions: intimacy and antagonism
     Satyric and tragic versions of sympotic laughter
     Socratic complications: xenophon’s symposium
     Chapter 4 Ritual laughter and the renewal of li