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Panagiotis Soutsos writes Aesop's animals as if they had just stepped out of a nineteenth-century Athenian coffeehouse: foxes and donkeys argue in rhymed Greek, and the old fables turn into jabs at people who deserve them. Start with the 1833 «Μύθοι του Αισώπου σε έμμετρη απόδοση», where the satire is sharp and the verse is light on its feet; the 1864 «Μύθοι του Αισώπου σε έμμετρη απόδοση (2)» brings a wider cast and a fuller growl. Both books share that pleasure of watching an old story turn suddenly personal, aimed at the powerful and the foolish of his own day.
Feels like morality, society and wonder.
Panagiotis Soutsos (1806–1868), a poet of the Greek Romantic school, wrote this verse Aesop in the 1860s and set his own patriotic barbs against Greek ingratitude and political folly.
The grapes are sour, and the fox has a speech prepared.
Σταφυλὰς μεγαλοῤῥώγους ὅλας καὶ ὡριμασμέναςβλέπουσα εἰς ὕψος δράνας ἡ ἀλώπηξ κρεμασμένας,πρώτην ἔφοδον, δευτέραν, τρίτην ἔκαμε πηδῶσα·ἀλλὰ τὰ πηδήματά της ἦσαν μάταια τὰ τόσα·δὲν τὰς ἔφθασεν· ἐκ τούτου ἔφευγεν, ἐπαλινδρόμει·«εἶν’ αἱ σταφυλαὶ» εἰς ὅλους, ἔλεγε, «ξειναὶ ἀκόμη».Ἐπιμύθιον.Τὴν κρυφίαν ἡμῶν λύπην ἄλλοτε παρηγοροῦντες,ἄλλοτε τὴν καταισχύνην νὰ καλύψωμεν ζητοῦντες,εἰς παντὸς ἀποτυχίαν ἀγαθοῦ διὰ χιλίωντὸ περιφρονοῦμεν λόγων ἀνορίκτων καὶ γελοίων. Παναγιώτης Σούτσος, 1864
Aeschylus and Aristophanes in one voice: Aesop's fables retold in rhymed Greek verse, with the poet turning every animal's mistake into a jab at his own ambitious, ungrateful contemporaries.
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