Aesop
Aesop
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Aesop (6th cent. BC)
伊索 (Aesop)（公元前 6 世纪）
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Greek author of animal fables which came to enjoy wide popularity in numerous forms and languages.
希腊作家，其动物寓言以多种形式和语言广为流传。
Greek author of animal fables which came to enjoy a very wide popularity in numerous forms and languages. Three related Syriac collections survive, a standard collection with 64 fables, in a number of mss., but a larger one in a single ms. with 83 fables, and a third collection with only 10; Aesop’s name was corrupted into ‘Iosipos’ and identified as Josephus in the ‘Catalogue’ of ʿAbdishoʿ . The Syriac translation has been variously dated between the 9th and 11th cent. It subsequently came to circulate in Jewish circles in Hebrew characters (attributed to ‘Sophos’), and in the 11th cent. a Greek translation was made by Michael Andreopoulos in Melitene ; in this the author’s name came to be given as Syntipas (the Syriac Sindbad having been translated at the same time).
一位创作动物寓言的希腊作家，其作品以多种形式和语言享有极广泛的流行度。现存三部相关的叙利亚语集子：一部标准集子含 64 则寓言，见于多部手稿 (mss.)；另一部较大的集子见于单一手稿 (ms.)，含 83 则寓言；第三部集子仅含 10 则。伊索 (Aesop) 的名字被讹变为‘伊奥西波斯’(Iosipos)，并在阿卜迪舒 (ʿAbdishoʿ) 的《目录》(Catalogue) 中被认定为约瑟夫斯 (Josephus)。该叙利亚语译本的年代判定不一，介于 9 至 11 世纪 (cent.) 之间。随后，该作品在犹太界以希伯来字母流传（被归于‘索福斯’(Sophos) 名下）；11 世纪 (cent.) 时，米海尔·安德烈奥普洛斯 (Michael Andreopoulos) 在梅利提尼 (Melitene) 制作了一部希腊语译本；在此译本中，作者之名被定为辛提帕斯 (Syntipas)（叙利亚语《辛巴德》(Syriac Sindbad) 也在同一时期被翻译）。
In the Life of Aesop, written in Greek (1st cent. AD), sections 101–23 draw heavily on the story of Aḥiqar , evidently available in Greek (now lost).
在《伊索传》(Life of Aesop)（用希腊语写成，公元 1 世纪）中，第 101–23 节大量借鉴了阿希卡尔 (Aḥiqar) 的故事，该故事显然曾有希腊语版本（现已失传）。
References
J. Landsberger, Die Fabeln des Sophos (1859). (Syriac in Hebrew characters)
B. Lefevre, Une version syriaque des fables d’Ésope (1941). (Syr. with FT)
B. Perry, Aesopica (1952). (Life of Aesop, pp. 35–77; Greek tr. of Syriac fables, pp. 511–28 [Introduction], 529–50 [text])
Citation
Sebastian P. Brock. 2011. “Aesop.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Aesop.