Aesop's Fables: A New Translation

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: A New Translation

en_US Oxford World's Classics

Description

en_US Original language: und

en_US Second printing

en_US Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Laura Gibbs

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:29Z

en_US 2003-02

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US What a fine book! It delivers, I believe, what Robert and Olivia Temple promised. I think its chief accomplishment is that it presents the ancient Greek and Latin collections fully. In addition, there are links to the sources, and a good bibliography of these. The fables are well translated,with helpful comments appended to them. In keeping with the quest for completeness, there are often variant versions given of what would be the same Perry number but now has two numbers and two texts in Gibbs, e.g. 31-32, 40-41, 111-112, 139-140, and 255-256. The organization of the fables is novel. The main divisions are excellent. Fables themselves (#3-498) are separated from Aetiologies, Parodoxes, Insults, and Jokes (#499-600). Within the fables themselves, Gibbs offers groupings like Slaves and Masters, Animal Kings, Choosing a King, The Flock, and Self-Destruction, to take the first five. There must be seventy or eighty such groupings. I am sorry that Gibbs or her editor does not give an overview or outline of these topics somewhere. Indices at the end of the book track first Perry numbers, then sources, and finally all the people, animals, and things referred to. I will use this book a great deal.

Identifier

en_US 192840509

en_US 5003 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80600

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Oxford University Press

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 G533 2002

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole