An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 023112760X ISBN 13 : 9780231127608

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2003

Synopsis

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style, and context of the poem.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California, Irvine.George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York, Oswego.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 023112760X
• ISBN 13: 9780231127608
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576
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