Philogelos
By: edidit R. D. Dawe.
Contributors: Dawe, R. D.; Hierocles, Grammarian.
Series: Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana
Publisher: K.G. Saur
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Monachii [i.e. Munich]
Language: grc
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Greek wit and humor.
Notes: Greek text, Latin preface and 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.