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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83022

Language

en_US rus

Publisher

en_US George Rangaves, Artisan

en_US Walnut Creek, CA

Subject

en_US PA3855.1.R3 1991

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole