Babrius and Phaedrus / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library 436, Babrius and Phaedrus (Fables). In one volume. Translated by Ben Edwin Perry.
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  • Condition / Etat: good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear / bon état, minimes traces d'usures.
  • Volumes : 1 volume.
  • Binding / Reliure : original green titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : CII, 633 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
  • Date : 1990.
  • Language / Langue: Ancient Grec and English on opposite pages / Bilingue grec et anglais.

    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 first 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 fables, in five books, are in lively terse and simple Latin verse not lacking in dignity. They not only amuse and teach but also satirise social and political life in Rome.
    This edition includes a comprehensive analytical survey of Greek and Latin fables in the Aesopic tradition, as well as a historical introduction.

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
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Condition Gebraucht - Gut
Sprache Vereinigtes Königreich
Illustrierd Nein
Publicaton Date 01.01.1990
Jahr 1990
Autor / Kartograph / Fotograf Babrius, Phaeder
Editor Harvard University Press
First Edition Nein
Signed edition Nein
Signed binding Nein
Aux armes Nein
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