Philogelos (Ancient Greek: Φιλόγελως, "Love of Laughter"), also titled or subtitled The Jests of Hierocles and Philagrius, is the oldest surviving collection of jokes, originally written in Ancient Greek.
showcases a virtual exhibit, ‘‘Philogelos: The First Joke Book,” featuring cartoons created from translations of the Philogelos collection. Roman jokes Poetics...
price)", or "with Tertia putting out." The earliest extant joke book is the Philogelos (Greek for The Laughter-Lover), a collection of 265 jokes written in crude...
the reign of Diocletian Hierocles, possibly 4th century, co-editor of Philogelos Hierocles of Alexandria, 5th century, Greek Neoplatonist writer Hierocles...
after being sold a parrot who 'joined the bleedin' choir invisible.'" The Philogelos, the oldest surviving joke book from antiquity written in the fourth century...
included among Aesop's Fables and later in the 4th century CE joke book, the Philogelos. It is numbered 57 in the Perry Index. This fable falls into the category...
indexes G. Pachymeres, Hierocles and Philagrios, Declamationes XIII, Philogelos. G. Pachymeris, De Michaele et Andronico Paleologis, Bonn, 1835., Greek...
of Nasreddin dates to 1571. Some of the stories, however, are in the Philogelos[citation needed] and Aesop's fables. Today, Nasreddin stories are told...
you understand, that four ones came before you? On the Orator, Cicero Philogelos, an ancient Greek joke book. Poetics (Aristotle), Aristotle discusses...
residents of a fictional town of Laleburg Greek residents of Abdera. The Philogelos, a Greek-language joke book compiled in the 4th century AD, has a chapter...
collection of some 260 witticisms attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius, the Philogelos, has no connection with Hierocles of Alexandria, but is probably a compilation...
field for his work on early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the Philogelos, on Lucian, and on the Byzantine satire Timarion. He is a regular columnist...
Philagrius (comes Orientis) Philagrius of Epirus Philagrios, a co-editor of Philogelos Hieromartyr Philagrius of Cyprus, an East Orthodox saint This disambiguation...
"Tõsiselt nalja tehes ehk naerust kreeka kombel: katkendeid kogumikust Philogelos," In: Mille anni sicut dies hesterna...: studia in honorem Kalle Kasemaa...
modern period. The oldest surviving collection of jokes is the Byzantine Philogelos from the first millennium. In Western Europe, the medieval fabliau and...
antecedents". He cited also the opinion of Alfred Eberhard, whose edition of the Philogelos he was reviewing, in Latin: "homo Graecus tot libris inventis, corruptis...
American Regional English (DARE) virtual exhibit, and the Greek language Philogelos comic strip. The NML owns the world's only International Flag of Language...
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