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Babrius (bā`brēəs), fl. 2d cent.?, Greek fabulist, versifier of the fables of Aesop Aesop (ē`səp, ē`sŏp), legendary Greek fabulist. According to Herodotus, he was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . Many of the medieval prose collections of Aesop were based on Babrius. He may have been a Hellenized Roman. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Much of his work has focused on Hellenistic poetry (especially that of Callimachus); he has also written on Babrius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ovid, Juvenal, and Colluthus and has investigated linguistic usage, theophany, the relationship of the Cynics to early Christianity, polar bears in antiquity, and E. Areas of inquiry range from the reception of Aesop and Babrius in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to the theory of classical architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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