Philogelos
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Philogelos (Ancient Greek: Φιλόγελως, "Love of Laughter"), also titled or subtitled The Jests of Hierocles and Philagrius, is the oldest surviving collection of jokes, originally written in Ancient Greek. Although it is the oldest surviving joke book, it is not the oldest collection ever known: Athenaeus wrote that Philip II of Macedon paid for a social club in Athens to write down its members' jokes, and at the beginning of the second century BC, Plautus twice has a character mentioning books of jokes.[1]