Posts Tagged ‘Greek’
Chicken joke: Aristophanes
Aristophanes: Pisthetairos had just expelled her from Cloud-cuckoo-land.
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Tags: ancient, dramatists, Greek
Chicken joke: Zeno of Elea
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
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Tags: ancient, Greek, philosophers, skepticism
Chicken joke: Heraclitus
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Heraclitus: Because she could not cross it twice.
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Chicken joke: Xenophon
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Xenophon: Because it was the wrong road. He needed to find a way back to the coast.
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Tags: ancient, generals, Greek, philosophers, soldiers, Xenophon
Chicken joke: Herodotus
I’m doing a series of historian jokes, starting with Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the “Father of History” (or “Father of Lies,” depending on whom you ask). He lived in the 5th century B.C.E. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Herodotus: Another story that is told among the Cimmerians is this, that in past times [...]
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Tags: ancient, Greek, historians, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Pythagoras
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Pythagoras: Only the initiates of the inner circle are permitted to hear the reason.
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Tags: ancient, Greek, mathematicians, mystics, philosophers
