Aesop
In Our Time
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Those Are Composed by Slave
We have fables going back mespetem literature to three thousand b c. In greek literature, there appear sometime in the eighth century. So we can imagine that these narratives of speaking truth power would also appeal to slaves and satisfy their social needs. But it is worth saying that our sort of standard image of high greek culture in particular is the body beautiful, standing tall, reading out epic verse. This is the opposite. This is an ugly guy doing small things in prose. That's it. If you want a hierarchy of genris, this is at the bottom. And so if you've got someone pretending to be a slave talking to somebody whos gladiator about how to
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