Aesopic Conversations

Leslie Kurke

Original title: Aesopic conversations

earliest edition we have, 2010 Princeton University Press, 2010 504 pages

Martin classical lectures

Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. This book explores the anonymous Life of Aesop. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" a...

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Aesopic conversations edition · 2010 · Princeton University Press · 504 pages · 9780691144573
Aesopic Conversations edition · 2010 · Princeton University Press · 504 pages · 9781400836567
Aesopic Conversations edition · 2010 · Princeton University Press · 504 pages · 9781283088824

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