• showcases a virtual exhibit, ‘‘Philogelos: The First Joke Book,” featuring cartoons created from translations of the Philogelos collection. Roman jokes Poetics...
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  • Isopteryx hermeasalis Walker, 1859 Falx sinuosalis Amsel, 1956 Parthenodes nymphulalis Hampson, 1906 Sufetula philogelos Dyar, 1922 Falcimorpha philogelos...
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    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...
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  • the reign of Diocletian Hierocles, possibly 4th century, co-editor of Philogelos Hierocles of Alexandria, 5th century, Greek Neoplatonist writer Hierocles...
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    was Abdera, but I wasn't silent" ("Hic, Abdera non tacente me"). The Philogelos, a Greek-language joke book compiled in the 4th century AD, has a chapter...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    indexes G. Pachymeres, Hierocles and Philagrios, Declamationes XIII, Philogelos. G. Pachymeris, De Michaele et Andronico Paleologis, Bonn, 1835., Greek...
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  • you understand, that four ones came before you? On the Orator, Cicero Philogelos, an ancient Greek joke book. Poetics (Aristotle), Aristotle discusses...
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