The complete fables / Aesop ; translated by Olivia and Robert Temple ; with an introduction by Robert Temple.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aesop.

Temple, Olivia.

Temple, Robert K. G.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

Aesop's fables. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Fables, Greek--Translations into English.

Fables, Greek.

Aesop--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

Aesop--Translations into English.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv, 262 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1998.

Summary:

This is the first translation ever to make available the complete corpus of 358 fables.

Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. Such fables vividly reveal the strange superstitions of ordinary ancient Greeks, how they treated their pets, how they spoilt their sons and even what they kept in their larders.

As these stories became well-known, 'Aesopic' one-liners were widely quoted at drinking-parties, and the collection eventually came to include more satirical tales of alien creatures - apes, camels, lions and elephants - which presumably originate in Libya and Egypt. All have now been brought together in this definitive and fully annotated modern edition.

ISBN:

0140446494

9780140446494

OCLC:

39210300

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description