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Record Nr.

UNISA996237750103316

Autore

Adrados Francisco Rodríguez <1922-2020, >

Titolo

History of the Graeco-Latin fable . Volume 2 The fable during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages / / by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados ; translated by Leslie A. Ray ; revised and updated by the author and Gert-Jan van Dijk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston ; ; Köln : , : Brill, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

90-04-35112-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 volumes (xviii, 740, xx, 756, xlviii, 1168 pages))

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 207

Disciplina

398.20938

Soggetti

Fables, Classical - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- THE HELLENISTIC FABLES WITH A SINGLE PRIMARY METRICAL VERSION -- THE HELLENISTIC FABLES WITH MORE THAN ONE PRIMARY METRICAL VERSION: SPECIAL CASES -- PHAEDRUS -- BABRIUS -- THE PSEUDO-DOSITHEUS -- APHTHONIUS -- AVIANUS -- THE AUGUSTANA COLLECTION -- MINOR COLLECTIONS AND EXEMPLUM-FABLES -- THE FABLES OF THE CODEX BRANCACCIANUS -- THE SYRIAC FABLES -- THE VINDOBONENSIS AND ACCURSIANA COLLECTIONS -- THE BODLEIAN PARAPHRASE AND THE “POLITICI” DODECASYLLABLES -- THE TETRASTICHS OF IGNATIUS THE DEACON AND HIS IMITATORS -- THE FABLES OF THE ADEMARI AND WISSENBURGENSIS CODICES AND THOSE OF THE SO-CALLED ROMULUS -- THE MEDIEVAL GREEK AND LATIN FABLE OF THE ORIENTAL TRADITION AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREEK FABLE IN THE ORIENT -- THE REMAINING MEDIEVAL GREEK AND LATIN TRADITION -- CONCLUSION -- SYNOPSIS I: THE GREEK FABLE (COLLECTIONS) -- INDEX LOCORUM.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the second of three volumes covering the long history of the fable from Sumer to the present day. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity, supports the study of more than 500 works considered to be fables.