Aesop's human zoo
Roman stories about our bodies
by Gaius Julius Phaedrus
"In Aesop's Human Zoo, the Cambridge classicist John Henderson puts together a set of up-front translations - fifty sharp, raw, and sometimes bawdy, fables by Phaedrus rendered in the tersest colloquial English verse." "Providing unusual insights into the heart of Roman culture, these clever poems open up odd avenues of ancient lore and life as they explore social types and physical aspects of the body, regularly mocking the limitations of human nature and offering vulgar or promiscuous interpretations of the stuff of social life." "Beginning to advanced classicists and Latin scholars will appreciate the original Latin text provided in this bilingual edition. The splash of classic Thomas Bewick wood engravings to accompany the fables renders the collection complete."--BOOK JACKET.
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Animals, Human Body, Latin Fables, Poetry, Translations into English, Phaedra (greek mythology), Fables, Animals, poetry, Italy, poetryPeople
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Aesop's human zoo: Roman stories about our bodies
2004, University of Chicago
in English
0226326810 9780226326818
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