Perry's Index to the Aesopica
Fables exist in many versions; here is one version in English:
THE MAN AND HIS DAUGHTER
There was a man who had fallen in love with his own daughter. Goaded by lust,
he sent his wife to the countryside whereupon he forced himself violently on
his daughter. She said to him, 'Father, you are committing an unholy crime.
I would rather have offered myself to a hundred men than to you!' |
 Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New
cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
Perry 379: Gibbs (Oxford) 136 [English]
You can find a compilation of Perry's index to the Aesopica in the gigantic appendix to his
edition of Babrius and Phaedrus for the Loeb Classical Library
(Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1965). This book is an absolute must for anyone interested
in the Aesopic fable tradition. Invaluable.
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