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Title
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Gesta Romanorum
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Description
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Translated by Rev. Charles Swan. Revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper
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Creator
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Hooper, Wynnard
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
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1990-04
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1959
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
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Date Issued
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1876
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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0404500099
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866 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Dover Publications Inc.,
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New York
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Subject
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PA8323.E5 S9 1959
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Tangential book
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole