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Article: Aesop: The Complete Fables.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple. New York: Penguin Classics. 262 pp. $8.95.
Marina Warner
The biter bit. Sour grapes. Swan song. Pride comes before a fall. Borrowed plumage. Crying wolf. Once bitten twice shy. In the skin of a lion. Let sleeping dogs lie. Blowing hot and cold. One swallow does not make a summer. These proverbial phrases still stud common speech today, approximately twenty-six hundred years after they were written down as the work of one Aesop, a slave.
When I bought S.A. Handford's postwar translation of Aesop's Fables in the sixties, the Penguin Classic was already in its twentieth printing. There is something fustian and ...
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