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Telling Tales on Caesar : Roman Stories from Phaedrus - Phaedrus .

Telling Tales on Caesar

Roman Stories from Phaedrus

By: Phaedrus ., John Henderson (Translator)

Hardcover | 1 April 2001

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This book contains a dozen entertaining stories written in colloquial Latin verse newly translated and commented on by John Henderson. The author, Phaedrus, was a freeman of Augustus who put Aesop's Fables into five books of verse during the reign of Tiberius. He included a number of stories and anecdotes on everyday life situations as well as assorted satirical bits. Rarely read today, they take the reader to the heart of ancient Rome into everyday corners of classical life and culture, high and low, in the focal period of the first emperors, Augustus and Tiberius. Phaedrus was a member of the imperial staff and his themes include the emperor in private and in court; theatricity in public life; declamation as a site for mythologizing Rome; masculinity in ancient gender coding; patronage for poets under the Caesars; prejudice, wit, cynicism, and tyranny. The stories, combined with an introduction to the Fabulae of Aesop, show the ways Romans thought of, and protested at, Caesars.
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`This is a fascinating look at a little-known author and at the Rome of Tiberius, a rewarding read for classicists, comparatists, all who enjoy perceptive and intelligent reading' Scholia `Henderson's own style is witty, informal, offbeat, meticulously scholarly, using lecture-note shorthand to make a point succinctly but suggestively' Scholia `Provides a wealth of historical and cultural information, along with sensitive literary analysis and detailed commentary, amply documented in the endnotes.' Scholia `Henderson is a phenomenally gifted reader' Denis Feeney, TLS

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