Philogelos / edidit R.D. Dawe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hierocles, author.

Contributor:

Dawe, R. D. (Roger David)

Hierocles, Grammarian.

Series:

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Monachii [i.e. Munich] : K.G. Saur, 2000.

Language Note:

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Summary:

Philogelos ( lover of laughter) is a collection of over 260 jokes of imperial and Byzantine vintage. The humor can seem at times surprisingly modern; at other times it seems so feeble as scarcely to deserve the name. In general it is aimed at the stupidity of persons who are variously called ""scholastics"" or citizens of, e.g., Cyme or Abdera. Many of the anecdotes are transmitted in two different ...

Contents:

Front matter

ΦΙΛΟΓΕΛΩΣ. ἐκ τῶν Ίεροκλέους καὶ Φιλαγρίου γραμματικοῦ

APPENDIX DE CODICIBVS PAR. SVP. GR. 491 (z) et 690 (A) INTER SE CONNEXIS

INDEX VERBORVM

Back matter

Notes:

A collection of facetiae sometimes attributed, through misidentification of the otherwise unknown Hierocles named in MSS. as author, to the 5th cent. neo-Platonist Hierocles of Alexandria. However, according to Dawe (p.v), the work is derived from multiple sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-094768-4

OCLC:

850181449