Greek laughter: a study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity

Introduction: Greek laughter in theory and practice

Inside and outside morality: the laughter of Homeric gods and men

Sympotic elation and resistance to death

Ritual laughter and the renewal of life

Aischrology, shame and old comedy

Greek philosophy and the ethics of ridicule

Greek laughter and the problem of the absurd

The intermittencies of laughter in Menander's social world

Lucian and the laughter of life and death

Laughter denied, laughter deferred: the antigelastic tendencies of early Christianity.