Fables of Phaedrus, The

By Phaedrus

Book Id: WPLBN0002951818
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File Size: 55.46 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Fables of Phaedrus, The
Author:	Phaedrus
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Short stories, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Fables of Phaedrus, The
Historic Publication Date:	1887
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Phaedrus, B., & Riley, H. T. (1887). Fables of Phaedrus, The. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the moral), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern concept of fable is that it should have animals or inanimated objects as characters - an idea supported by the works of famous fabulists such as Aesop and La Fontaine - Phaedrus, the most important Latin fabulist, is innovative in his writing. Although many of his fables do depict animals or objects assuming speech, he also has many short stories about men, writing narratives that seem to the modern eye more like short tales than fables. Despite many other fables being attributed to Phaedrus, only five books are considered by scholarship to have been written by him. Phaedrus' five books of fables are here presented in a translation to English prose by Henry Thomas Ridley. (Summary by Leni)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Short stories, Fiction, Ancient Texts, Classics (antiquity)