Types of Women women to different animals in the poem is not an invention of Semonides, but seems to have been based on a pre-existing folk tale. Aesop's fables were attributed in ancient Greece to the sixth-century BCE slave of that name, but many of them are likely to be much older than that; one of these fables, that of Zeus and Prometheus, has a similar premise to Semonides' poem, and may have been known to him. Later poets tell similar stories, probably also inspired by these folktales. An elegiac fragment by Phocylides describes women as having originated from one of four different
The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World F.R. de Oliveira and K. Georgosopoulos. The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World () is a collection of lectures and essays on the translation of Ancient Greek drama, edited by Helena Patrikiou and published in 1998. The book includes work presented in October 1995 as part of a convention on the translation of Greek drama, in which nearly 40 scholars and translators participated. The compilation features lectures and essays by Giorgos Aggelinaras, P. Mavromoustakou, Christina Symvoulidou, , , A. Feldhuns, G.