Item
Aisopou Mythoi: Aesop's Fables and His Life
- Title
- en_US Aisopou Mythoi: Aesop's Fables and His Life
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: Modern Greek/English
- en_US #273 of 1000
- en_US George Rangaves
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Rackham, Arthur
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:11:32Z
- en_US 2008-05
- en_US 1991
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:11:32Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1991
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a second copy, numbered #273 and not #243. My checking against previous holdings should have kept me from spending another $40 on a book I had! As I wrote of the first copy, this has to be one of the more curious books in this collection. First of all, the book breaks between Aesop's life and his fables for a brief presentation, with two pasted-in colored photographs, of Holy Week celebrations on Patmos! There is a nice set of fable illustrations in brown-and-white on the end-papers. The black-and-white illustrations in the book itself are taken unattributed from Rackham. The first full-page illustration in red-and-white copies a colored illustration from about 1900. The text presents modern Greek and English, usually for one fable per page. The English here is very poor. Misspellings like thier and dumb fouwnded abound. The braggart seems to be telling his story on Rhodes rather than about it (48). The Eagle and the Fox (49) misses the Greek as much when it says that the fox was not troubled at the death of her child. Did the crab pick up a large pair of scissors to kill the snake (61)? The city mouse takes the field mouse to a storage-space, where humans interrupt them (87). The very last line of the book claims that these are just a few of Asope's fables (94). I am sorry to see the spirit of Greek pride that is behind this book express itself in so many errors.
- Identifier
- en_US 7766 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US rus
- Publisher
- en_US George Rangaves, Artisan
- en_US Walnut Creek, CA
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.1.R3 1991 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books