Perry Index Perry Index The Perry Index is a widely used index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the fables credited to Aesop, the storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Modern scholarship takes the view that Aesop probably did not compose all of the fables attributed to him; indeed, a few are known to have first been used before Aesop lived, while the first record we have of many others is from well over a millennium after his time. Traditionally, Aesop's fables were arranged alphabetically, which is not helpful to the reader. B. E. Perry listed them by
Instruction in Ancient Greek considerable amount of the time spent by students for homework. In Italy, the compulsory study of Ancient Greek have been both praised and criticized. It has been suggested that Italian schooling system should be revised to meet the international modern education standards, but very little has changed inside Italian schools when the study of Ancient Greek and Latin are considered. Italian physicist Guido Tonelli also attended "liceo classico" high school, and he said that the translation of short texts from Ancient Greek and Latin is comparable to "scientific research"; it's also supposed to be a useful mental exercise. Some Italian