An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds by Nicholas, Nick

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231127615)

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An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds by Nicholas, Nick

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

$38.00
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds by Nicholas, Nick

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

$38.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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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.

Author: Nick Nicholas
ISBN-10: 0231127618
ISBN-13: 9780231127615
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2003
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.32w x 1.23d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1074
By Nick Nicholas
By Nick Nicholas
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Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California, Irvine.George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York, Oswego.

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