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This examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within the cults of Demeter. This speech, sometimes known as aischrologia, had considerable weight and vitality within its cultic context. It also shaped literary conditions, notable iambic and Attic old comedy traditionally regarded as entirely male.O'Higgins, Laurie is the author of 'Women and Humor in Classical Greece ', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521037907 and ISBN 0521037905.
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