Author: Slavitt, David R. (tr.)
Title: THE FABLES OF AVIANUS.
Description: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Avianus was a 5th century writer often compared to Aesop. Foreword by Jack Zipes, Illustrations by Neil Welliver. Herein the complete work of Avianus -- forty two elegiac fables in all -- has been rendered into contemporary English verse. Royal 8vo.

Keywords: fable mythology folk lore Roman literature ancient