Aesop

Broschiertes Buch

Aesop's Fables

Beschreibung

This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek derived from the legendary Aesop, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.

Autor

Laura Gibbs completed her M.Phil. in European Literature at St Antony's College, Oxford and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She has also studied and taught at the Centre for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World at the University of Siena in Italy. She is currently employed as a specialist in academic computing at the University of Oklahoma where she is developing Latin and Greek teaching tools for use on the Internet.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780199540754
• ISBN-10: 0199540756
• Artikelnr.: 23361637

Rezensionen

'Laura Gibbs has recently brought out a splendid translation with a very helpful introduction of the bulk of the fables in the Oxford World's Classics.' Gabriel Josipovici, TLS