Philogelos compendium

Today's post is a bit different: it's a review of the Philogelos jokes that I shared in previous posts drawn from various Greek readers. I'm about to start on a Philogelos project with Hector Tapia (grad student at UC Davis working on Aesopic humor and other jokes), and it may result in a reader for students, so I wanted to see what stories I had found in the old textbooks thus far.

Below you will find a list of titles linked to their blog posts, and you can also find all that content copied-and-pasted into this document: Philogelos jokes from old Greek textbooks. There are 58 of these little jokes, so that is already a good start! Having them all in one place lets you search the document for a keyword, for example, if you want to find all the donkeys or doctors, all the references to slaves, etc.

For more Philogelos jokes in Greek (there are over 250 total!), see You've Got to Be Joking: An English Translation of the Philogelos by Annie McCabe, an undergraduate (!) thesis available for download at New College of Florida.

I also found some Philogelos cartoons online at the Language Museum. This one Τίς ὁ τεθνηκώς; (the cartoon is in English, but it includes the Greek text below).

These are links to past blog posts:

1. Ἀβδηρίτης καὶ ἰατρός
2. Ἀβδηρίτης καὶ χοιρίδιον
3. Ἀβδηρίτης τις κολυμβῶν
4. Ἀβδηρίτου στρουθίον
5. Αἱ πύλαι τῶν Ἀβδήρων
6. Δειλὸς κυνηγὸς
7. Δίδυμοι ἀδελφοί
8. Δικαίως μωροὶ καλούμεθα
9. Δύσκολος ἰατρός
10. Δύσκολὸς καὶ δοῦλος
11. Ἔμαθον ὅτι ἀπέθανες
12. Ἐπὶ δεῖπνον κληθείς
13. Ἡ λεκάνη μὴ ἔχουσα ὠτία
14. Ἡ λήκυθος
15. Ἡ μήτηρ Πριάμου
16. Ἡ περὶ τῶν βιβλίων ἐπιστολή
17. Καθ' ὕπνους ἰδὼν
18. Κριτήρια ἐν ᾍδου
19. Κυμαῖος ἰατρὸς
20. Κυμαῖος καὶ συκῆ
21. Κυμαῖός τις ἐν τῷ κολυμβᾶν
22. Κυμαῖός τις μέλι ἐπώλει
23. Ὀκνηρὸς υἱός
24. Ὃν ἐπώλησάς μοι δοῦλον
25. Ὄνος καὶ ἔλαιον
26. Πλοῖα ἀσφαλέστερα
27. Προσκεφάλαιον
28. Σιδώνιος σχολαστικός
29. Σχολαστικοὶ δύο καὶ μέλαινα ὄρνις
30. Σχολαστικὸς ἰατρῷ συναντήσας
31. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ ἀδελφοὶ δύο
32. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ διδάσκαλος
33. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ θρέμματα
34. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ ἰατρός
35. Σχολαστικός καὶ κλῖμαξ
36. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ κόραξ
37. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ κουρεύς
38. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ οἰκία
39. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ οἶνος
40. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ ὄνος
41. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ πώγων
42. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ σελήνη
43. Σχολαστικός καὶ στρουθοί
44. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ τὰ βιβλία αὑτοῦ
45. Σχολαστικὸς καὶ φρέαρ
46. Σχολαστικὸς μαχόμενος τῷ πατρὶ
47. Σχολαστικὸς ναυαγεῖν μέλλων
48. Σχολαστικὸς ναυαγῶν
49. Σχολαστικὸς νοσοῦντα ἐπισκεπτόμενος
50. Σχολαστικὸς νοσῶν καὶ γυνὴ
51. Σχολαστικὸς οἰκίαν πωλῶν
52. Σχολαστικὸς πεπαιδευμένος
53. Σχολαστικός τις ἐνοπτρίζεται
54. Σχολαστικός τις καὶ ποταμός
55. Σχολαστικοῦ υἱὸς
56. Τίς ὁ τεθνηκώς;
57. Ὑὸς κεφαλή
58. Φιλάργυρος

So, enjoy the jokes, and I'll be back next week with more stories from the old readers.

Plus here's a random proverb and a random LOLCat too:

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