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    Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros), or Phaeder (c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier...
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  • Phaedrus may refer to: Phaedrus (Athenian) (c. 444 BC – 393 BC), an Athenian aristocrat depicted in Plato's dialogues Phaedrus (fabulist) (c. 15 BC – c...
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    Fable (redirect from Fabulist)
    Alexandria, c. 64 BCE – 17 CE), author of the Fabulae Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE), Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian Nizami Ganjavi (Persian, 1141–1209)...
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  • (Deception) is a figure who appears in an Aesopic fable by the Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus, where he is an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus. According...
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    Aesop (category Fabulists)
    problematic is the story by Phaedrus, which has Aesop, in Athens, relating the fable of the frogs who asked for a king, because Phaedrus has this happening during...
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    and most influential of the prose versions of Phaedrus bears the name of an otherwise unknown fabulist named Romulus. It contains 83 fables, dates from...
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  • Latin manuscripts of beast fables. These are based on prose adaptations of Phaedrus (1st century AD). The Romulus texts make up the bulk of the medieval 'Aesop'...
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    Barrel", the Russian Fabulist Ivan Krylov told a similar illustrative story and applied it to education. The poems of Phaedrus began to be translated...
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    Jean de La Fontaine (category French fabulists)
    French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is...
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  • Roman general (d. AD 19) Alexander, Herodian prince of Judea Phaedrus, Roman fabulist and writer Lucius Munatius Plancus, Roman consul (b. c. 87 BC)...
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    Jewish ruler (Nasi) in Babylonia (approximate date) Gaius Julius Phaedrus, Roman fabulist (b. c. 15 BC) Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher (b. c. 20...
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    Crane, is one of Aesop's fables and is first recorded in the collection of Phaedrus. It is numbered 426 in the Perry Index. A fox invites a stork to eat with...
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    the Perry Index. In Latin literary sources, the fable was versified by Phaedrus and is alluded to by Juvenal in a satire. There the merchant Catullus jettisons...
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    has generally been taken as a caution against listening to flatterers. Phaedrus prefaces his Latin poem with the warning that the one 'who takes delight...
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    vile, selfish Schemes." The Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov made substantial changes to the original version of Phaedrus in his fable of "The Peasant and the...
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  • run deep is another example. A previous instance of such adaptation was Phaedrus, who had done much the same to the proverb about The Mountain in Labour...
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  • languages. Credited as among Aesop's Fables, and recorded in Latin by Phaedrus, the fable is numbered 137 in the Perry Index. There are also versions...
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  • The two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus. Leading later writers of apologues were Giambattista Basile in Italy;...
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    reproaching himself "for pitying a scoundrel", while in the version by Phaedrus the snake says that he bit his benefactor "to teach the lesson not to expect...
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  • without musical accompaniment. It was the preferred meter of the Roman fabulist Phaedrus in the first century AD. In Latin the basic meter was as follows:...
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  • developed during the Middle Ages and has a completely different moral. The Phaedrus version of the fable is separately numbered 511 in the Perry Index and...
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    of Greek promētheia (ἀπὸ τής πρόμηθείας). Anecdotally, the Roman fabulist Phaedrus (c.15 BC – c.50 AD) attributes to Aesop a simple etiology for homosexuality...
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    wife, was stirred to reply only in her commonplace book that “The British fabulist misleads the mind, /Friendship and love are better thus defined,” although...
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    Jossey-Bass. p. 13. ISBN 0787975508. Ben Edwin Perry (1965). Babrius and Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 545...
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    (c. 100-30 BC) Rhapsode winner in Amphiarian games Phaedrus of Pieria (c. 15 BC – c. AD 50), fabulist Antipater of Thessalonica (late 1st century BC), epigrammatic...
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    collected in 1668, were in the main adapted from the classical fabulists Aesop, Babrius and Phaedrus. In these, La Fontaine adhered to the path of his predecessors...
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  • on the historian Suetonius (edited by Johann Georg Graevius), the fabulist Phaedrus, the comedian Terence, and Vergil. Guyet, François (1575–1655). Retrieved...
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  • phantom". He was himself followed at a distance by Ivan Krylov in that fabulist's more succinct but similar "The Man and his Shadow", in the concluding...
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  • (c. 100–30 BC) Rhapsode winner in Amphiarian games Phaedrus of Pieria (c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD) fabulist Antipater of Thessalonica (late 1st century BC) epigrammatic...
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    the eleven tales of the Creole fabulist, thirteen are found in Iriarte, twelve in Aesop and La Fontaine, nine in Phaedrus and eight in Samaniego. The mule...
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