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History of the Graeco-Latin Fable, Vol. One: Introduction and from the Origins to the Hellenistic Age
- Title
- en_US History of the Graeco-Latin Fable, Vol. One: Introduction and from the Origins to the Hellenistic Age
- en_US Mnemosyne Supplements, Vol. 201
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Original language: spa
- en_US Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Translated by Leslie A. Ray; revised and updated by the author and Gert-Jan van Dijk
- Creator
- en_US Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:15:57Z
- en_US 2000-03
- en_US 1999
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:15:57Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1999
- Abstract
- en_US Where should one begin with a tome like this? My desperate attempt to review it for BMCR took eleven full pages! Let me just say here that Adrados sweeps across a great swath of territory and attempts to employ a method that follows the data rather than a formula fashioned according to our current understanding of fable. There is a wealth of insight here. I find his arguments often not easy to follow or to agree with, but it is a delight to watch him working with what evidence we do have. There are, I believe, two or three more volumes, all as expensive as this one! The book seems to be selling for $375 on Amazon. Is it also available on GoogleBooks? Volume II now costs $425! Volume III $492! I notice that Helen Morales in The Classical Review is much more harsh with the book than I was. The book is sructured poorly; it is repetitive, rambling, and incoherent, all of which makes it difficult to extrapolate the worthy from the dross . . . . It is to be hoped that in the future Brill take better advice about which 'classic' texts are worth reissuing (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2002, p. 169).
- Identifier
- en_US 9789004118911 (v. 3)
- en_US 8240 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Brill
- en_US Leiden
- Subject
- en_US PA3032.R613 1999 See all items with this value
- en_US Secondary 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