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Adrados, Francisco R. "The 'Life of Aesop' and the Origins of Novel in Antiquity." Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica, n.s. I (1979): 93-112.
Discusses various incidents in the ancient "Life of Aesop" while arguing that the comic-realistic novel resulted from the merging of a Hellenic adaptation of the legend of Ahikar with the legend of a fable-telling Delphic pharmakos, or scapegoat.
Baker, Howard. "A Portrait of Aesop." Sewanee Review LXXVII, No. 4 (October-December...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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