History of the Graeco-Latin Fable: The fable during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages. Volume twoThis is the second of three volumes covering the long history of the fable from Sumer to the present day. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity, supports the study of more than 500 works considered to be fables. |
Contents
The Hellenistic Fables with More | 75 |
Phaedrus | 121 |
Babrius | 175 |
The PseudoDositheus | 221 |
Aphthonius | 236 |
Avianus | 254 |
The Augustana Collection | 275 |
Minor Collections and ExemplumFables | 357 |
The Vindobonensis and Accursiana | 429 |
The Bodleian Paraphrase and | 465 |
The Tetrastichs of Ignatius the Deacon | 493 |
The Fables of the Ademari | 516 |
The Medieval Greek and Latin Fable | 559 |
The Remaining Medieval Greek | 630 |
Conclusion | 711 |
Synopses of the History of the Fable | 725 |
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History of the Graeco-Latin Fable: The fable during the Roman Empire and in ... Francisco Rodríguez Adrados No preview available - 2000 |
Common terms and phrases
9th century Accursiana Aesop Aesopus ad Rufum Ahikar already altered Ancient Augustana ancient fables anecdotes Anglo-Latin Romulus animal epic Anonymous Fables Aphthonius Augustana Avianus Babrian Babrius branch Byzantine Byzantium choliambic closely related closing statement collections comes complementary verse contaminated Cynic Demetrius Demetrius Phalereus dodecasyllables elements epimythium Eudes example expanded fables derived fabulistic fact four verses Greek fable Hellenistic verse Hervieux III8 innovations later Latin Libanius lion Marie de France Medieval metre metrical version Mouse not-H Oriental original Panchatantra paraphrases Phaedrus Plutarch pre-Augustana preserved primary metrical primary model primary verse primary version prosifications Pseudo-Dositheus reconstructed refer Romulus of Nilant Rylands Papyrus secondary version semiprosified sions situation fable sometimes stemma stemmata Stesichorus summary Synt Syntipas Syriac Tetr theme Themistius tion undoubtedly various wolf Ysengrimus δὲ καὶ τὴν