Fables
Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a hellenised Roman living in Asia Minor during the late 1st century of our era. The fables are all in one metre and in very good style, humorous and pointed. Some are original.Phaedrus, born in Macedonia, flourished in the early half of the 1st century of our era. Apparently a slave set free by the emperor Augustus, he lived in Italy and began to write Aesopian fables. When he offended Sejanus, a powerful official of the emperor Tiberius, he was punished but not silenced. The fa…
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Weitere Autoren: Phaedrus / Perry, Ben Edwin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-674-99480-5
- EAN: 9780674994805
- Produktnummer: 1362497
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 736 S.
- Masse: H18.1 cm x B18.7 cm x D3.7 cm 494 g
- Gewicht: 494
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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