Watch a Lecture on Ancient Humor

March 27, 2008

Since it's tax time, here's a freebie for you. Earlier this week, Discovery News ran a feature about ancient humor. The story included some commentary by classicist Owen Ewald, who recently gave a lecture on the subject at Seattle Pacific University. The university kindly provided a videotape of his entire 45 minute lecture, "What Are You Laughing At? Humor in the Ancient World." Sit back, relax and enjoy. 

Comments

[ileen verble]

For some reason this video isn't showing up for me. I'd really like to watch it,would it be possible to get the url for the video itself, or else get it by e-mail as a file?

[Jen Viegas]

Hi Ileen. The video takes a while to download because it's nearly an hour long. The university also put it on iTunes. Just do a search at the iTunes store for "Owen Ewald." There you'll find the lecture in both audio only and video files. Thanks for your interest!