ENGLISHGREEK

Aesopica: a series of texts to Aesop or ascribed to him or closely connected with the literary tradition that bears his name

By Ben Edwin Perry

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
1952
Google Books ID
iPU6AAAAIAAJ
Language
englishgreek
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 MB (46107396 bytes)
Pages
765\791
Time added
2024-07-02 07:57:33

Description

The most complete corpus of the proverbs and fables of Aesop ever assembled.Ben Edwin Perry's Aesopica remains the definitive edition of all fables reputed to be by Aesop. The volume begins traditionally with a life of Aesop, but in two different and previously unedited Greek versions, with collations that record variations in the major recensions. It includes 179 proverbs attributed to Aesop and 725 carefully organized fables, for which Perry also provides their eldest known sources. To better evaluate the place of Aesop in literary history, Perry includes testimonies about Aesop made by Greek and Latin authors, from Herodotus to Maximus Planudes.

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