Philogelos

Philogelos (), also titled or subtitled The Jests of Hierocles and Philagrius, is a Greek-language book published in late antiquity that is the oldest known surviving collection of jokes.

== Context == Although the Philogelos is the oldest surviving joke book, there are known to be prior joke books that have since become lost. Athenaeus wrote in the Deipnosophistae that Philip II of Macedon paid for a social club in Athens to write down its members' jokes for him, and joke books are mentioned by characters in Persa and Stichus, two comedies by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Plautus.