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Aesopic conversations
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of \"great\" and \"little\" traditions spanning centuries.
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Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables
This book examines the depictions of anthropomorphised animals found on ostraca and papyri from Deir el-Medina and considers their narrative and artistic purpose within the religious environment of New Kingdom Thebes.
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Arctic Aesop's fables : twelve retold tales
\"The animals of Alaska's far north teach life lessons in these retold tales from the classic Aesop's fables, set in the unique landscape of Alaska's wilderness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Very short fables to read together
Retells thirteen of Aesop's fables, with each short poem inviting two readers to read their own parts, and then read the passage in the central column together.
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Matthew: Effect or Fable?
In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding constant the quality of these efforts. In practice, because it is very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus proviso often precludes convincing empirical assessments of the magnitude of status effects. We address this problem by examining the impact of a major status-conferring prize that shifts actors' positions in a prestige ordering. Specifically, using a precisely constructed matched sample, we estimate the effect of a scientist becoming a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator on citations to articles the scientist published before the prize was awarded. We do find evidence of a postappointment citation boost, but the effect is small and limited to a short window of time. Consistent with theories of status, however, the effect of the prize is significantly larger when there is uncertainty about article quality, and when prize winners are of (relatively) low status at the time of election to the HHMI Investigator Program.
This paper was accepted by David Hsu, entrepreneurship and innovation.
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The Wolf and his shadow and other fables
\"Being a good friend takes practice and effort. Loyalty, patience, and selflessness are key parts of friendship, and hard to put into practice when trying to recruit many friends instead of just a few. Aesop's fable 'The Hare with Many Friends' drives this point home to readers! They'll take away similar lessons from the many other stories of Aesop, including 'The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag' and 'The Swan and the Goose.\" All enhanced by hand-drawn illustrations, these fables help readers begin to understand strong character and the good it can bring to self and others\"--Provided by the publisher.
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Ahumanism, Art, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and You
This article explicates Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec’s thought experiment Vampyroteuthis infernalis. Eine Abhandlung samt Befund des Institut Scientifique de Recherche Para-naturaliste (1987) in the context of zoosemiotics, ethology, and Flusser’s broader philosophical inquiries into culture, nature, and art. Flusser chooses to mind-read and ventriloquize the vampire squid, a cephalopod who inhabits an aphotic world of complete darkness and isolation from humans. Flusser makes the squid an actant in his complex fable that plays against an environmental literature that attributes emotions and consciousness to animals, but only rarely to invertebrates who disgust humans due to their distance in evolutionary branching. Why, Flusser asks implicitly, do we exclude from such theory-of-mind considerations those aspects of human consciousness responsible for amoral, ahuman phenomena such as Auschwitz and nuclear weaponry? What corresponding phenomena for these can we posit in the animal mind? The result is a reconsideration of the function of art, culture, and communication.
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