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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810641103321

Autore

Hierocles

Titolo

Philogelos / / edidit R.D. Dawe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-11-094768-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 p.)

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Classificazione

FH 70751

Altri autori (Persone)

DaweR. D (Roger David)

Hierocles, Grammarian

Disciplina

880

882.01

Soggetti

Greek wit and humor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 ...