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Collection exempt fables credited to Aesop

For other uses, see Aesop's Fables (disambiguation).

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Life of Aesop the Philosopher (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 50) 1628373261, 9781628373264

Table of contents :
COVER
CONTENTS
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PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
THE MORN RECENSION AND ITS TEXTUAL TRADITION
EDITORIAL METHODOLOGY
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
SIGLA CODICUM
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX

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Grammatiki A. Karla is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Überlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer frühbyzantinischen Fassung des Äsopromans (2001) and coeditor of Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity (2023).

Life of Aesop the Philosopher

The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop in general, the history of the textual tradition, and the MORN manuscript family and its relationship to other versions and papyrus fragments. She then presents a new edition of the late antique version (MORN) alongside David Konstan’s English translation. A commentary addresses editorial choices and focuses on words

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The “erotic” Greek novels place at the centre of the plot an orthodox, heterosexual, monogamous, and lifelong love affair between a young man and a maiden. By contrast, the so-called “open” or “fringe” novels (a group of diverse works... more

The “erotic” Greek novels place at the centre of the plot an orthodox, heterosexual, monogamous, and lifelong love affair between a young man and a maiden. By contrast, the so-called “open” or “fringe” novels (a group of diverse works which share some basic common traits, such as a linear biographical narrative, non-organic structure, a trickster protagonist, the mixture of many storytelling genres, and a fluid textual transmission) treat eros in a starkly different manner: love stories are pushed to the margins of the narrative, in peripheral episodes or inserted tales; and instead of the idealized, model love of the erotic novels, there is a variety of deviant passions, forbidden liaisons, or sexual aberrations. The creators of the “open” texts consciously adopted the exact opposite practice than the erotic novels, in order to clearly demarcate their genre as a different mode of fictional storytelling. The pathology of love thus became a marker of generic identity.

Four examples are adduced from the corpus of the “open” novels to illu