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Record Nr.

UNISA996214860403316

Autore

Babrius

Titolo

Fables / / Babrius ; with an English translation by Ben Edwin Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-674-99480-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Loeb Classical Library ; ; 436

Soggetti

Classical poetry - Translations into English

Classical poetry

Fables, Classical - Stories, plots, etc

Fables, Classical - Translations into English

Fables, Classical

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION: The aesopic fable in antiquity. Nature and origin of fable. Aesop. Babrius. Phaedrus -- BABRIUS: Introduction. Text and translation of the metrically extant fables -- PHAEDRUS: Introduction. Text and translation of the metrically extant fables -- APPENDIX: An analytical survey of Greek and Latin fables in the Aesopic tradition -- INDICES: Index of fables. Index of proper nouns and adjectives occurring within the fables.

Sommario/riassunto

Babrius's humorous and pointed fables in Greek verse probably date from the first century CE. From the same period come the lively fables in Latin verse written by Phaedrus, which satirize social and political life in Augustan Rome.