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An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

Nicholas, Nick
Baloglou, George

Hardcover

Series: Records of Western Civilization

General Poetry

ISBN10: 023112760X
ISBN13: 9780231127608
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jul 18 2003
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.32 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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