Dan Crompton
The World's Oldest Joke Book
Price: £1.99
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 09/12/2013
ISBN: 9781782432425
Subject: Non-Fiction
Size: EPUB 2
Extent: 160 pages
Illustration: black and white illustrations throughout
Territorial Rights: World
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Enquire nowThe gagmeisters of today would do well to learn from the ancients... a work of scholarship as much as a tickler of the funny bone: a sassy but accurate translation
The Daily Telegraph
I like a fart joke as much as the next man... and it's reassuring that the Romans, who gave us the word puerile, were equally enthusiastic
The Times
Dan Crompton studied Classics and Linguistics at Cambridge University. He is the author of Caught Short (2013) and A Classical Primer (2012) and the translator (from the original Ancient Greek) of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: The World's Oldest Joke Book (2010).