Aesopic Fables Retold by Babrius the Fabulist

Babrius, second century CE, is the name this site attaches to a Greek writer of Aesopic μῦθοι in choliambic verse. A dedication to Branchus is in the book; a royal court around that name is report, not a fact this page can fix.

What this site holds is Aesopic Fables (Μυθίαμβοι), two books, about 144 μῦθοι, fragmentary in the surviving stream. An Athos manuscript recovered in the nineteenth century is a later witness. Avianus is Latin and later. The Greek speaks of μῦθος in iambs. It is a Greek verse book in this corpus, not Aesop’s own hand.