Greek and Latin fables. Babrius and Phaedrus.

Henri TOURNIER, a graduate in classical literature, who died in February 2005, had taught since 1998 as a PRAG at the Computer Science Center for Literature and Human Sciences at the University of Provence. A talented poet, knowledgeable computer scientist, and passionate musician, he had been a professor of Advanced Literature at the Cézanne high school and is credited with a remarkable conversion of Horace's Odes into verse.
Jean-Pierre CHAUSSERIE-LAPRÉE, professor emeritus at the University of Provence, collected the texts and supervised the publication of this work, for which he wrote the preface.

This publication collects - preceded by three chapters from a thesis in progress on Greco-Latin fable - the entire translation into Alexandrines that Henri Tournier had carried out, line for line, of the two major fabulists of his corpus: Babrius and Phaedrus. The newest part of his work, this sumptuous translation will be a landmark. As for the written fragments of the study undertaken {Birth of a Genre; Of Animals and Men; Woman in Fables), their quality made a great book await. As such, they contribute to the knowledge of an aspect, too often neglected by critics, of the literary writing of ancient authors.