Journal of American Folklore, January 1st, 2007
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction. By Niklas Holzberg. Trans. by Christine Jackson-Holzberg. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 128, bibliography, indexes.)
Niklas Holzberg's Ancient Fable: An Introduction provides a concise and clear analysis of the Greek and Roman sources for Aesop's fables. The book surveys each of the major sources for the approximately six hundred Greek and Latin fables that have survived from antiquity. This includes fables as exempla in the different historical periods of Greek and Roman literature; the verse fable collections of the poets Phaedrus, Bab...
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