Animal fables of the courtly Mediterranean : the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates / edited and translated by Alison Noble ; with Alexander Alexakis and Richard H. Greenfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eugenius, Admiral of Sicily, approximately 1130-approximately 1203.

Noble, Alison (Alison Elizabeth), editor, translator.

Alexakis, Alexander, editor, translator.

Greenfield, Richard P. H., editor, translator.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 73.

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library; DOML 73

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Fables, Arabic--Translations into Greek--Early works to 1800.

Fables, Arabic.

Animals in literature--Early works to 1800.

Animals in literature.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 497 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Facing page translation with the Ancient Greek on the versos and the English translation on the rectros.

Summary:

"The work begins with a collection of diverse prefatory material including the epigram naming Eugenios of Panormos (Palermo) in connection with the work, and Eugenios's own introduction, in which he defends the contents, saying that one should be willing to acquire knowledge no matter what its source and practice an allegorical interpretation of the work. In the Eugenian recension three prologues follow, translated from Arabic, which have originated during the long course of the work's transmission and development from its Indian sources. The reader encounters the prologues in the following order: the account of Perzoué's (Borzuya's) journey to India (Prologue A), the introduction to the work by Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (Prologue B), and Perzoué's autobiography (Prologue C). The main text of the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates, as it is published here, is divided into fifteen chapters of unequal length and bears the hallmarks of the fluid transmission of the work"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

The present volume represents an expanded twelfth century Sicilian version of Symeon Seth's eleventh century Greek translation of the Arabic work Kalīla wa-Dimnah, itself a version of the Middle Persian work known as the Fables of Bidpai. This Greek version includes additional material translated from Arabic that brings it closer to the Arabic Kalīla wa-Dimnah in both form and content from Seth's version, and a unique preface that associates this Sicilian recension with a known historical figure of the time, the admiral, or emir, Eugenios of Palermo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Greek

Container of: Fables of Bidpai. English (Noble)

ISBN:

9780674271272

0674271270

OCLC:

1290244899

Publisher Number:

99993085148