[PDF.66wt] An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series)

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series)

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 | #3342677 in Books |  2003-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,1.70 | File type: PDF | 544 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A labor of love with an exotic aroma|By A Customer|Obscure Medieval Greek poetry is not my cup of tea but I
somehow was hooked while reading this allegoric fable.
The extensive commentary of the two co-editors adds hugely
to the attraction of the book -since it is a labor of
love, it never becomes pedantic or boring and it offers
many an unexpected and| |Nicholas and Baloglou have here produced a thorough study of a 14th-century 'popular' Byzantine poem concerning an assembly of herbivores and carnivores at the behest of King Lion.... Reproductions of the drawings from the one illustrated manuscript of the tal

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals ...

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