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An Entertaining Tale Of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series) - Softcover

Nicholas, Nick

 
9780231127615: An Entertaining Tale Of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0231127618 ISBN 13: 9780231127615
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style, and context of the poem.

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About the Author

Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California, Irvine.George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York, Oswego.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231127618
ISBN 13 
9780231127615
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
576