Test 3

Question 1

What is a scurra?

Answer 1

Jester

Question 2

Bona dicta?

Answer 2

Good words

Question 3

Pantomimi?

Answer 3

Imitators of everything

Question 4

Palliatae?

Answer 4

Plays in Greek dress

Question 5

Pallium?

Answer 5

Greek mantle

Question 6

Homo novus?

Answer 6

new man

Question 7

Cicer?

Answer 7

Chick-pea

Question 8

Lazzi?

Answer 8

Jokes

Question 9

Catulus?

Answer 9

Puppy

Question 10

Latrare?

Answer 10

To bark

Question 11

Facetiae?

Answer 11

Witticism

Question 12

Sal?

Answer 12

Lit. salt, means wit

Question 13

Dicacitas?

Answer 13

Biting wit

Question 14

Cavillatio?

Answer 14

Jeering, scoffing

Question 15

How are women shown in comedic ways on vase art?

Answer 15

• Gossiping
• Thinking about sex
• Sneaking around to drink wine
• Slacking off/sleeping on the job

Question 16

Where is the archaic smile found?

Answer 16

On koroi, statues from Olympoa, gravestones/stelai, and sarcophagi

Question 17

What does latin use as the root word for laugh?

Answer 17

Ridere, Cicero also used cacchinare (cackle)

Question 18

What did social kissing sometimes indicate?

Answer 18

A sign of power, one could kiss the cheek of someone who held authority over them

Question 19

What was Elagabalus known for?

Answer 19

Laughing so loud in the theatre that no one else could be heard by the audience

Question 20

When was saturnalia held?

Answer 20

December 17th

Question 21

Who was saturnalia held in honour of?

Answer 21

The god Saturnus

Question 22

What happened at the saturnalia?

Answer 22

• masters and slaves switched places
• drinking, feasting, gambling, exchanging gifts

Question 23

According to Macrobius, how many characters were in the saturnalia?

Answer 23

12 characters
- 3 of them members of the roman elite

Question 24

According to Macrobius, where was the telling of discussions held?

Answer 24

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus’ home
- day before saturnalia and the 3 days during

Question 25

What was the sole form of theatre that involved female actors?

Answer 25

Roman mime

Question 26

What did roman mime involve?

Answer 26

Mimetic action, song, and spoken dialogue

Question 27

What was ancient rome pantomime?

Answer 27

Dancing without speaking

Question 28

What is the roman drama fabula atellana?

Answer 28

Atellan play - Improv by mask actors who were impersonating stock actors

Question 29

What is the roman drama fescennine verses?

Answer 29

Rustic clowns improvised obscene dialogues at harvest festivals?

Question 30

What does commedia dell'arte translate to?

Answer 30

Comedy of the professional artists

Question 31

What did la commedia include?

Answer 31

Farcical action: dance, acrobatics, and lazzi - basic plot is normally a familiar story about young lovers

Question 32

Who was Plautus? What type of comedy are all of his plays?

Answer 32

- roman playwright - palliatae: plays in greek dress - adapted from greek new comedy

Question 33

Who was terence?

Answer 33

Roman playwright, ex slave

Question 34

What was comedic masterpiece considered?

Answer 34

The Adelphoe (The Brothers) - adapted from greek new comedy

Question 35

Who was democritus?

Answer 35

The laughing philosopher

Question 36

Who was Heraclitus?

Answer 36

The weeping philosopher

Question 37

Who did Cicero consider the funniest in "On the Orator?"

Answer 37

The athenians as they were the wittiest

Question 38

What was Cicero considered and what philosophy did he follow?

Answer 38

Homo novus and the academy

Question 39

What was Plutarch's opinion of Cicero?

Answer 39

- he was disliked due to his constant self-praise - he attacked people using witticisms or puns that caused people to dislike him - he often chose to attack people in order to elicit laughter from others

Question 40

How does Plutarch describe Demosthenes?

Answer 40

- devoting all the powers of speech to the rhetorical arts - enemies described him as morose and ill-mannered

Question 41

What did Cicero use as a pun, highlighted by Quintilian?

Answer 41

Cook (coquus) and quoque

Question 42

What does Cicero write about in On the Orator?

Answer 42

What laughter is, where it comes from, weather an orator should provoke it, how far, what diff. categories of the laughable are

Question 43

When is laughter considered inappropriate according to Cicero?

Answer 43

- too much accentuation - attacking someone without provocation - use of body language, that is an actors job - vulgarity