Caricatures inAthens and at the Kabirion Sanctuary in Boeotia

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Autres temps autres moeurs. We have seen in Chapter 2 that the mocking of reprehensible social behaviour is a form of moral criticism, and it can be considered as a caricature of the soul; the exaggeration of gluttony is a leitmotif in caricature. In a similar way, in archaic and classical Greece, old age, pygmies, and dwarfs aroused laughter. Anything contrary to the norm was ridiculed. This chapter focuses first on caricature in Athens and then at the Kabirion sanctuary in Boeotia.

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