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Biographie fantaisiste d'un auteur semi-légendaire, la Vie d’Ésope raconte l’étonnante ascension d’un misérable esclave, que son intelligence rusée et le soutien des dieux hissent peu à peu au niveau des grands de ce monde, mais qui, tel un héros de tragédie, périt, victime de son hybris, d’une fin de bouc émissaire. Assemblage composite d’éléments dont les plus anciens remontent à l’époque classique, l’œuvre a pris sa forme actuelle au début de notre ère, au moment même où s’épanouit le roman grec. Mais elle a pour héros un personnage qui, par son incroyable laideur et ses origines serviles, est aux antipodes des séduisants et aristocratiques jeunes premiers du roman grec, et fait figure de « marginal » culturel, protagoniste hors norme d’une œuvre volontiers subversive où figures d’autorités et représentants de la haute culture sont assez durement mis à mal. Comme bien d’autres textes populaires, que ne protégeait pas le respect des copistes, la Vie d’Ésope a fait l’objet d’adaptations successives au fil des siècles : c’est la version la plus ancienne, celle du manuscrit de Grottaferrata (G), qui est traduite ici en français pour la première fois – accompagnée d’extraits des rédactions ultérieures grâce auxquels le lecteur pourra apprécier comment la légende d’Ésope a été progressivement assagie par les remanieurs.

Fables, Greek --- Authors, Greek --- Fables grecques --- Ecrivains grecs --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Histoire et critique --- Biographie --- Life of Aesop. --- Aesop's fables. --- Classical Greek literature --- Critical edition --- Aesop. --- Critical edition. --- History and criticism --- Aesopus --- Ezop --- Esop --- Esopo --- Esope --- Aisōpos --- Esopus --- Ezovbos --- Ezopos --- Īcāp --- Isop --- אזוף --- אזופוס --- איסופוס --- עזאפ --- イソップ --- 伊索 --- Aesop --- Aesopi --- Äsop --- Acqui 2006

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Ethics in Aesop’s Fables: the Augustana Collection offers an original and innovative analysis of the Greek fable in the framework of Greek ethical thinking. The book starts with a brief account of the history and genre of the Greek fable. It then focuses on the Augustana collection of prose fables and analyses its ethical content in the larger context of Greek thought. A detailed comparison of Greek ethical thinking with the language of the fables shows the persistence of certain types of ethical reasoning and of certain key ethical norms. The author argues that although the fable was not 'philosophy', it was indeed 'philosophical' because it communicated normative messages about human behaviour, which reflected widespread views in Greek ethical thought. This book is of special interest to both students and scholars of Greek fable and of Greek philosophy.

Fables, Greek --- Ethics, Ancient, in literature --- Fables grecques --- Morale ancienne dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Aesop's fables --- Ethics, Ancient, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -Greek fables --- Aesop --- -Aesopus --- Ezop --- Esop --- Esopo --- Esope --- Aisōpos --- Esopus --- Ezovbos --- Ezopos --- Īcāp --- Isop --- אזוף --- אזופוס --- איסופוס --- עזאפ --- イソップ --- 伊索 --- Influence --- Influence. --- Aesop's fables. --- -History and criticism --- -Influence --- Morale ancienne dans la littérature --- Aesopus --- Aisōpou mythoi --- Fables of Aesop --- Fabulae Aesopi --- Īcāp kataikaḷ --- Aesop in Mexico --- Μῦθοι (Aesop's fables) --- Mythoi (Aesop's fables) --- Corpus Fabularum Aesopicarum --- Aesopi --- Äsop --- Fables, Greek - History and criticism.

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Babrius's humorous and pointed fables in Greek verse probably date from the first century CE. From the same period come the lively fables in Latin verse written by Phaedrus, which satirize social and political life in Augustan Rome.

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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. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against

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Didactic poetry --- Fables, Greek --- Fables, Scottish --- Animals in literature --- Ethics in literature --- History and criticism --- Adaptations --- Henryson, Robert, --- Roman de Renart --- Aesop's fables --- -Fables, Scottish --- -Scottish poetry --- -Didactic poetry --- -Poetry --- Scottish literature --- Scottish fables --- Greek fables --- -History and criticism --- Greek influences --- Henryson, Robert --- Aesop --- -Aesopus --- Ezop --- Esop --- Esopo --- Esope --- Aisōpos --- Esopus --- Ezovbos --- Ezopos --- Īcāp --- Isop --- אזוף --- אזופוס --- איסופוס --- עזאפ --- イソップ --- 伊索 --- Influence --- -Adaptations --- -Influence --- Animals in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Roman de Renart. --- Aesop's fables. --- Poetry --- Adaptations&delete& --- Aesopus --- Reinaert --- Aisōpou mythoi --- Fables of Aesop --- Fabulae Aesopi --- Īcāp kataikaḷ --- Aesop in Mexico --- Μῦθοι (Aesop's fables) --- Mythoi (Aesop's fables) --- Corpus Fabularum Aesopicarum --- Aesopi --- Äsop --- Didactic poetry - History and criticism --- Fables, Greek - Adaptations - History and criticism --- Fables, Scottish - History and criticism --- Henryson, Robert, - 1430?-1506? - Morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian --- Henryson (robert) --- Critique et interpretation