Item
Gesta Romanorum
- Title
- en_US Gesta Romanorum
- Description
- en_US Translated by Rev. Charles Swan. Revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper
- Creator
- en_US Hooper, Wynnard See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
- en_US 1990-04
- en_US 1959
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1876
- Abstract
- en_US A curious book of 181 stories. Of interest for the history of fable are: the wild Christian applications after the stories; the use of the terms apologue and fable ; and the contemporizing of Socrates, Alexander, and Claudius in one fable (#61). Items of the T of C (called outlines ) on lxviii-lxxvi do not match the actual titles of the individual stories. No index, unfortunately. The introduction and notes are nineteenth-century scholarship at its best and worst. Strongly Aesopic: Do Not Drive Away the Flies (#51); The Blind and the Lame (#71); The Donkey and the Lapdog (#79); AL (#104, but Androcles is a knight turned brigand, and years pass before the story's second phase); The Serpent and the Man Once Wronged (#141); and The Frozen Serpent (#174). Tales with Aesopic touches or background are #28, 85, 91, and 93.
- Identifier
- en_US 0404500099
- en_US 866 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Dover Publications Inc.,
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PA8323.E5 S9 1959 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential book 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