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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Nicholas, Nick
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| Publisher: |
Columbia University Press
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| Date: |
07/18/2003
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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