Telling tales on Caesar : Roman stories from Phaedrus /

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Author / Creator:Phaedrus.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:x, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Latin
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4425033
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Other authors / contributors:Henderson, John, 1948-
ISBN:0199240957 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-273) and indexes.
English and Latin parallel text; commentary in English.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. We Are Not Amused: Tiberius Caesar and the Flunkey (2. 5)
  • 2. The Only Good Caesar: Divus Augustus and the Case of the Widow and the Wicked Freedman (3. 10)
  • 3. Another Hard Luck Story: Phaedrus' Tale (3. Prologue)
  • 4. L'Acteur-Roi: Piper Prince Breaks a Leg and Gets a Good Hand (5. 7)
  • App. It's the Real Thing: Grunt Piggy Grunt (5 .5)
  • 5. The Price of Fame: Pompey the Great and the Queen's Shilling (App. 10)
  • 6. Talent-Spotting: King Demetrius meets the Poet Menander (5. 1)
  • 7. Your Life in their Hands: The King and Dr. Cobbler (1. 14)
  • 8. Kings of Fable and Fables of Kings: Emperor Ape; Sick Lion; Dictator Kite; Tyrant Pisistratus, King Long and King Watersnaker; and other Wolves (4, 13; 4. 14; 1. 31; 1, 2; 1. 1, etc.).