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12-01-2008, 07:26 AM
Ancient Humor: Raunch, Riddles and Religion
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News


Ancient History? March 25, 2008 -- In the ancient Greek poem "The Odyssey," the story's hero, Odysseus, tells the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Odysseus instructs his men to drive a fiery iron spit into the monster's single eye, the Cyclops yells out in vain, "Friends, Nobody is killing me now," so no one comes to help.

This action-adventure humor, dating to around 800 B.C., is one of the first recorded jokes, according to the classics scholar Owen Ewald, who recently presented his findings on "Humor in the Ancient World" at Seattle Pacific University.

The world's first one-liners, however, were likely delivered tens of thousands of years before Homer, author of "The Odyssey," was born.


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