Article: Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations.

 
Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the 
Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations. 
By Horst Dolvers. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; 
London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 207 pp. [pound]29. 

Aesop was a slave who lived on the island of Samos in the sixth century bc. A rumour, accepted by the author of this book, has it that he hailed from Phrygia; in fact, as Herodotus, who spent part of his life on Samos, knew, he was from Thrace. Horst Dolvers calls him 'The Phrygian slave'; it is not clear whether he has read the Fables in Greek. His interest in Aesop's influence has been stimulated by a review the ...

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