Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Phaedrus' schönste Fabeln als zweisprachige Schmuckausgabe

Im 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. stieg der römische Autor Phaedrus in die Fußstapfen Äsops. Ob Ameise, Frosch, Fuchs oder Löwe - die Hauptrolle in seinen Fabeln spielen oft Tiere, aber auch Menschen, Götter oder sogar Gegenstände: Seine Texte bieten wunderbaren Lesegenuss und wurden vielfach nacherzählt.
Carolin Ritter hat für diese liebevoll gestaltete Ausgabe die schönsten Fabeln ausgewählt.

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

Animal fables are said to have originated with Aesop, a semilegendary Samian slave, but the earliest surviving record of the fables comes from the Latin poet Phaedrus, who introduced the new genre to Latin literature. This verse translation of The Fables is the first in English in more than two hundred years.

In addition to the familiar animal fables, about a quarter of the book includes such diverse material as prologues and epilogues, historical anecdotes, short stories, enlarged proverbs and sayings, comic episodes and folk wisdom, and many incidental glimpses of...