The Complete Fables Aesop Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

A Slave Who Represented His Masters In Court And Negotiations Aesop Relied On Allegorical Animal Stories Collected Here The Complete Fables To Convey Key Points This Penguin Classics Edition Is Translated From Greek By Olivia Robert Temple With An Introduction Series Of Pithy Amusing Vignettes Created Vivid Cast Characters Demonstrate Different Aspects Human Nature We See Wily Fox Outwitted Quick-Thinking Cicada Tortoise Triumphing Over Self-Confident Hare Fable-Teller Named Silencing Those Mock Him Each Jewel-Like Fable Provides Warning About Consequences Wrongdoing As Well Offering Glimpse Into Everyday Lives Ancient Greeks All Aesop\ S Full Humour Insight Savage Wit Many Fascinating Glimpses Ordinary Life Have Now Been Brought Together For First Time Definitive Fully Annotated Modern Little Known Certain (C 620-564 Bc) Though Details Are Scattered Throughout Works Writers Including Aristophanes Xenophon Aristotle Herodotus Give Grounds Thinking That He Was Plutarch Identifies Entertaining Storyteller Executed Delphians Being Thrown Off Cliff If You Enjoyed Might Like Ovid\ Metamorphoses Also Available \ Ground-Breaking Version Revelation Translation Excellent\ Peter Jones Sunday Telegraph\ Remains Fundamental Figure Western Literature\ Frederic Raphael Times Σελίδες: 288 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm