Aesop - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

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 1969): 557-90.

Discusses various incidents in the "Life of Aesop" while arguing for the aptness of the traditional description of Aesop as ugly in the sense of a comic or Socratic figure.

Goldsmith, Oliver. "Life of Aesop." In Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop, pp. i-ix. New York: R. Ellis for Cheshire House, 1932.

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