Title Babrius and Phaedrus. Newly edited and translated into English, together with an historical introduction and a comprehensive survey of Greek and Latin fables in the Aesopic tradition, by Ben Edwin Perry.

Publication Info.	London, W. Heinemann; 1965.
	Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1965.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	888 B115B	Check Shelf

Description	cii, 634 pages 17 cm.
Series	The Loeb classical library
	Loeb classical library.
Note	Greek and English or Latin and English on opposite pages.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Form	Also issued online.
Contents	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.
Summary	BABRIUS is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on 'Aesop's', in Greek verse. He may have been a 'Hellenised' Roman living in Asia Minor during the late 1st century after Christ. The fables are all in one metre and in very good style, terse, humorous and pointed. Some are original. PHAEDRUS, born in Macedonia, flourished in the early half of the 1st century after Christ. Apparently a slave set free by the Emperor Augustus (died A.D. 14) he lived in Italy and began to write 'Aesopian' fables. When he offended Sejanus the powerful official of the Emperor Tiberius, he was punished, but not silenced. The fables, in 5 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. In the later Middle Ages he was forgotten except in prose-versions of the fables.
Subject	Fables, Classical.
	Classical poetry.
	Aesop's fables.
	Aesop.
	Aesop. (OCoLC)fst00074268
	Aesop's fables. (OCoLC)fst01356097
	Classical poetry. (OCoLC)fst00863547
	Fables, Classical. (OCoLC)fst00919395
Added Author	Perry, B. E. (Ben Edwin), 1892-1968.
	Phaedrus. Fabulae. English & Latin.
Added Title	Fabulae Aesopeae. English & Greek
Other Form:	Online version: Babrius. Fabulae Aesopeae. English & Greek. Babrius and Phaedrus. London, W. Heinemann; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1965 (OCoLC)551527806
ISBN	0674994809
	9780674994805

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