Research Catalog

Title

Fables [electronic resource] / Babrius ; with an English translation by Ben Edwin Perry.

Author

Babrius.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Details

Additional Authors

• Phaedrus.
• Perry, B. E. (Ben Edwin), 1892-1968.

Description

1 online resource.

Summary

Babrius's humorous and pointed fables in Greek verse probably date from the first century CE. From the same period come the lively fables in Latin verse written by Phaedrus, which satirize social and political life in Augustan Rome.

Series Statement

Loeb Classical Library 436

Uniform Title

• Fabulae Aesopeae. English & Greek (Online)
• Loeb Classical Library 436.

Alternative Title

Fabulae Aesopeae.

Subject

• Aesop > Influence
• Aesop's fables > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Classical poetry > Translations into English
• Classical poetry
• Fables, Classical > Stories, plots, etc
• Fables, Classical > Translations into English
• Fables, Classical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes indexes.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Language (note)

• Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

OCLC

ssj0001417987

Author

Babrius.

Title

Fables [electronic resource] / Babrius ; with an English translation by Ben Edwin Perry.

Imprint

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Series

Loeb Classical Library 436

Loeb Classical Library 436.

Bibliography

Includes indexes.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

System Details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Language

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Connect to:

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Phaedrus.

Perry, B. E. (Ben Edwin), 1892-1968.

Other Form:

Print version: Babrius. Fables. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1965 9780674994805