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The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fable collections of the poets Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus; and the prose fable collections...Life of Aesop or the poets Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus. In the past, many of...Aesopica numeration system in Perry's Babrius and Phaedrus (Harvard University Press...
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KNOW IT ALL.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/3/2004; 495 words
; ...fables. Such skeptics argue that the works are mostly by two poets, the Greek Valerius Babrius and the Roman Phaedrus, who translated the works of Babrius. Q: I was watching a movie that had several shots of Mt. Fuji. When was the last time...
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The tortoise and the snail: a lexical shellgame.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...quod sedula gressu Nil ageret toto perficeretque die. (2) The eagle dropped it (deliberately, according to its source Babrius and a collateral version) and it was killed. (3) About seven hundred years later, in his Dialogus super auctores, a review...
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Foxy or out-foxed citizens? Solon, Fr. 11 West (15 Gentili-Prato).
Magazine article from: Acta Classica; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...subsequent discus-sion, Page argued that there was no antithesis and that the words meant 'follow where the fox leads', as in Babrius' fable 95. Cook conceded that 'Professor Page is evidently right if the fable is as old as Solon.' (13) According to...
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[ * About 47 percent of prescriptions written in the United States are for generic drugs.... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 8/9/2006; 426 words
; ...obese. * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually came three ancient writers: Demetrius of Phaleron, Valerius Babrius, and Phaedrus. They combined Greek oral traditions with tales from India, translated them into verse, and credited them...
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The fox in world literature: reflections on a "fictional animal".
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 10/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...Aesopian tradition (ARENDT 1982). Many of these fox narratives were incorporated into the tale collections of Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus, which in turn continued to be influential until modern times either independently (such as the collection...
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[ * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually c... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 2/1/2005; 423 words
; * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually came three ancient writers: Demetrius of Phaleron, Valerius Babrius, and Phaedrus. They combined Greek oral traditions with tales from India, translated them into verse, and credited them...
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[ * About one in five of all American children are overweight. If current trends continue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of the boys and 40 percent of the girls born in 2000 will develop diabetes during their lives.... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 2/5/2007; 471 words
; ...Historians tell us that Aesop, the guy with all those fables, probably didn't really exist. First century Greek writer Valerius Babrius compiled folk tales from Greece and India and invented the smart slave Aesop to act as storyteller. * Despite the "space...
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Babrius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Babrius , fl. 2d cent.?, Greek fabulist, versifier of the fables of Aesop . Many of the medieval prose collections of Aesop were based on Babrius. He may have been a Hellenized Roman.
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Phaedrus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of the day. Phaedrus is also thought to have written allusive fables that satirized Roman politics of the day. Along with Babrius, a Hellenized Roman of the 2nd century AD, Phaedrus is considered by authorities to be the principal successor to Aesop...
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Aesop
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and connect him with such rulers as Solon and Croesus. The fables called Aesop's fables were preserved principally through Babrius , Phaedrus , Planudes Maximus , and La Fontaine 's verse translations. The most famous of these fables include "The Fox...
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