FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ ADRADOS / GERT-JAN VAN DIJK
This third volume of the u003ciu003eHistory of the Graeco-Latin Fableu003c/iu003e offers a complete inventory and documentation of the Classical fable tradition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.u003cbru003eThe original Spanish edition (1987) has been considerably enlarged with numerous supplementary references and less than 350 new fables.u003cbru003eThe present edition uniquely refers to fables in more than 20 different languages, not only in Greek and Latin, but also in other Oriental and Western languages such as Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Circassian, Slavonian, Albanian, Spanish, Italian, English, French, German, and Dutch, thus paving the way for studies of comparative literature.u003cbru003eThe book is conveniently concluded with elaborate indexes of fable characters, passages included, and numeration systems of other contributions in the field.
