A Selection of Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US A Selection of Aesop's Fables

en_US Shandy and Snout Greek and Latin Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US #60 of 100

en_US Selected and translated by S[usan].T. Viguers

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Engelbart, J.J.

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:41Z

en_US 2008-03

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:41Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US Commissioned by The Friends of the Print Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia for Bound/Unbound, the 7th annual Robert F. Looney Memorial Event. Viguers draws most on Jacobs' 1894 collection. Viguers claims to have based her translation on the Assemblies of Aesopic Tales of Demetrius Phalareus, the recently discovered scroll that miraculously survived the razings of the Alexandrian libraries. Viguers' particular contribution to fable telling may lie in the direct expostulations of the animals, like the fox's Greoff gruff, grupp, grupp, grupp comments while lapping up all the soup that the stork could not eat. The wolf with a bone in his throat coughs Kuruff, kuruff, kuruff. One right-hand page of text is followed by a red-and-yellow right hand page of illustration with a moral beneath its picture. Particularly effective is Engelbart's depiction of LM, in which the lion resembles a ball of yarn! His DLS is also quite clever. The disguised ass strikes a Herculean pose. The morals give witness to some reflection. For OF, we read Don't Pick a Model Who's Much Greater. In an afterword, Viguers takes those to task who find the fables of the Panchatantra offering a deeper philosophical vision than Aesop's. I apologize for lapsing into sermon, but I firmly believe that Aesop's tales illuminate our path as they did that of the Greeks 2,600 years ago. This is a finely constructed book.

Identifier

en_US 6274 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81607

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Shandy Press

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 V5 2006

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole