Babrius and Phaedrus
著者
書誌事項
Babrius and Phaedrus
（The Loeb classical library, 436）
W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1965
- : American
- : British
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Babrius and Phaedrus : fables
Βαβριου μυψιαμβοι Αισωπειοι
Aesopic fables of Babrius in iambic verse
Phaedri Avgvsti liberti fabvlarvm Aesopiarvm
Phaedri Augusti liberti fabularum Aesopiarum
The Aesopic fables of Phaedrus the freedman of Augustus
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注記
"Edited and translated by Ben Edwin Perry"--T.p. of 1990 printing
Greek text and English translation or Latin text and English translation on opposite pages
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 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.
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