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Title
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The Lion's Share in Art and Legend
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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First edition
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Vivian B. Kline
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Creator
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Kline, Vivian B.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:50:47Z
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2007-03
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1973
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:50:47Z
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Date Issued
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1973
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Abstract
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Here is a 155-page book meant for the curious general reader. The author found herself asking why lions are represented so often and why they represent so many different things. She found, among other things, that the phrase describing the lion as 'King of Beasts' is so old that we do not know who first used it (viii). Copious photographs of art objects punctuate the presentation of lion as enemy, leader, guard, celestial body, and emblem. A chapter is given to fable, but the first fable is mentioned before then: the fable of the lion and the rooster (47-48). The lion who has allowed the cock to frighten him consoles himself when he learns that the elephant is tormented by a mosquito. The chapter itself, The Lion in Fable (50-58), takes note of the origin of this book's title in the fable of the lion who claims all four parts for himself (50). Kline quotes at length a strong passage from Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531 recommending fables (in Greek!) as important in grammar school. Erasmus is also cited, as is William Ellery Leonard (1912): Mankind will still remember Aesop/Though mountains melt and oceans freeze up. After 53, the chapter turns rather to ancient lion lore. Here Kline quotes--often at some length--Aristotle, Pliny, The Physiologus, and Leonardo. Fables return in The Lion As Good Guy (82-87). This chapter mentions LM, AL, St. Jerome and the Lion, and an Indian fable that sounds very much like a Jataka tale. In this tale, a lion has agreed to watch the monkey's two little ones. When the lion falls asleep, a vulture seizes the two young monkeys. After various negotiations fail, the lion tears out a piece of its own flesh to offer it to the vultures as ransom for the monkeys. Becoming a Lion includes mention of DLS (90).
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Identifier
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9780533008162
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6146 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Vantage Press
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New York
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Subject
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N7745.L5 K55 1973
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Tangential
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole