By M. Cyrino,M. Safran

An exam of ways monitor texts embody, refute, and reinvent the cultural background of antiquity, this quantity appears at particular story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman tradition. The participants supply numerous views, highlighting key cultural relay issues at which a fable is bought and reformulated for a specific audience.

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