Fables (Loeb Classical Library 436) de Babrius, Babrius & Phaedrus, Phaedrus & Perry, Ben Edwin

Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0674994809 . Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. A couple of pages not corner cut (with slight overhang). DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a hellenised Roman living in Asia Minor during the late 1st century of our era. The fables are all in one metre and in very good style, humorous and pointed. Some are original. Phaedrus, born in Macedonia, flourished in the early half of the 1st century of our era. Apparently a slave set free by the emperor Augustus, he lived in Italy and began to write Aesopian fables. When he offended Sejanus, a powerful official of the emperor Tiberius, he was punished but not silenced. The fables, in five books, are in lively terse and simple Latin verse not lacking in… Leer más

Harvard University Press, 1965-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

Loeb Classical Library, 1965-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardback. New. Greek and English or Latin and English on opposite pages.

Loeb Classical Library, 1990. Hardcover. New. 736 pages. 7.00x4.75x1.25 inches.

Harvard University Press, January 1965. Hardcover. VG-/Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any tears. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardcover. cii + 634 pp. Appendix; Indices. Book is in like new condition, with strong binding and clean pages. DJ is intact but shows light shelf wear. Ships immediately.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press, 1990. dj w/lite wear and rubbig, in mylar; 634 clean, unmarked pages/index; olive green c w/gilt decorations/titles. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.