Aesop's human zoo

the long version

"In Aesop's Human Zoo, the Cambridge classicist John Henderson puts together a set of up-front translations - fifty sharp, raw, and sometimes bawdy, fables by Phaedrus rendered in the tersest colloquial English verse." "Providing unusual insights into the heart of Roman culture, these clever poems open up odd avenues of ancient lore and life as they explore social types and physical aspects of the body, regularly mocking the limitations of human nature and offering vulgar or promiscuous interpretations of the stuff of social life." "Beginning to advanced classicists and Latin scholars will appreciate the original Latin text provided in this bilingual edition. The splash of classic Thomas Bewick wood engravings to accompany the fables renders the collection complete."--BOOK JACKET.