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The Green Dragon was one of the many inns of the Shire. It was located in Bywater on the Bywater Road and was the building nearest to Hobbiton, being one mile south-east from the bridge over the Water that led to Bag End. As such, Hobbits from both villages could be seen there.

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TIL the first known case of “dying from laughing” involved the greek man called Chrysippus, who, after giving figs to his donkey, cried out “Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs”, had a fit of laughter afterwards and died.

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pretty funny i guess

had to be there

Translation is always tricky, but I remember this slightly different:

Figs were an imported delicacy at the time, and the donkey just managed to eat them (without being given any on purpose). Seeing a donkey eating several times their own value in figs, the philosopher looked to his servant who might have been standing there either in shock, despair, or both, and said something along the lines of “Oh don’t just stand there. Get him some (undiluted) wine to wash the figs down with”. With (undiluted) wine also being an expensive drink.

I feel like that context makes it funnier. Basically like standing in front of your burning mansion with a butler, meeting their eyes, and telling them that you still feel a little chilly and ask them if they could put on an extra log or two.

idk what’s funnier, the burning house situation, or being the butler as you watch your master laugh so hard at his own joke that he fully fucking dies.

Imported delicacy? In Greece? One of the places where figs were historically cultivated? Were they really that rare at the time?

Anyway, like all historical accounts it’s important to ask, where did this come from? And, more importantly, what was the author trying to achieve by telling this? A lot of (if not all) ancient biographers were less concerned with telling the truth and more concerned with painting their subjects in a good or bad light, and taking them at face value can be a problem (see Elagabalus for instance).

The story of Chrysippus’ death comes from Diogenes Laertius, who actually gives TWO accounts of his death.

In the second, he laughs to death after seeing a donkey eat some figs and making a joke to the old woman (presumably the donkey’s owner).

In the first, he gets sick after drinking undiluted wine and dies. This is the one Diogenes Laertius finds more important, apparently - he even writes a poem about it!

Maybe it’s not about the joke? In both cases it’s about too much of something - laughing too much, or drinking too much. Is this a snide comment about Stoics not practicing what they preach? There’s no reason to think Diogenes Laertius was ridiculing Chrysippus (the guy loved the philosophers, even if Werner Jaeger thought he was an ignoramus), but who knows where Diogenes Laertius got his sources from (he was really bad at sourcing, a real quantity over quality type). Certainly he thought it worth writing “playful verses” about it.

Anyway, if that was Chrysippus’ sense of humor, “one may be forgiven for thinking it was a good thing that none of his 700 books survives” (Hankinson, 1994).

References

Diogenes Laertius; Mensch, P. trans. (2018) Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Hankinson, J. (1994) Bluff Your Way in Philosophy. Ravette Books, Horsham.

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