Life of Aesop the Philosopher (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 50) - Softcover

Grammatiki A. Karla; David Konstan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628373261 ISBN 13: 9781628373264

Publisher: SBL Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop in general, the history of the textual tradition, and the MORN manuscript family and its relationship to other versions and papyrus fragments. She then presents a new edition of the late antique version (MORN) alongside David Konstan’s English translation. A commentary addresses editorial choices and focuses on word

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About the Author

Grammatiki A. Karla is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Überlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer frühbyzantinischen Fassung des Äsopromans (2001) and coeditor of Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity (2023).

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. His most recent book is <ii>The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (2022).

Edition details

• Publisher: SBL Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628373261
• ISBN 13: 9781628373264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260