History of the Graeco-Latin fable / / by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados ; translated by Leslie A. Ray.
Spanning from Sumer to the present day few literary genres show greater continuity throughout their history than the fable. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity, supports the study of more than 500 works considered to be fables. This translation of the original Spanish, standard wor...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 201, 207, 236 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999-2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, Supplements
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (741 pages) |
| Notes: | "This edition has been revised and updated by the author and Gert-Jan van Dijk." |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Terminology of the Ancient Fable
- General Inventory of the Graeco-Latin Fable
- The Animal and Vegetable Fable in the Classical Age
- The Animal and Vegetable Fable in its Original Context
- Fable and Iambic Genres
- Oriental Elements in the Greek Fable
- Panorama of the Fable in the Archaic and Classical Ages
- The Fable in the Collection of Demetrius
- The New Panorama of the Fable
- The Hellenistic Fables in Verse and their Prosifications
- Content and Intention of the Hellenistic Collections
- The “Life of Aesop”
- The Irradiation of the Hellenistic Fable
- Index Locorum by Gert-Jan Van Dijk
- Supplements to Mnemosyne by J.M. Bremer , L.F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh and P.H. Schrijvers.