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Informationen zum Autor Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne! Australia! and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California! Irvine.George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York! Oswego. Klappentext An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium! this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document! one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm! the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others! resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form! style! and context of the poem. Zusammenfassung This neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two critical editions of the 14th-century anonymous poem! Nicholas and Baloglou reveal the full texture of this unique genre of the Byzantine period. The authors provide analysis on form! style and context.
