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Phaedrus

LC control no.n 50047685
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPA6563-6566
Personal name headingPhaedrus
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Variant(s)Fedr
Fedro
Phedro
Phaeder
Caius Julius Phaedrus
Fedro, Caio Júlio
Associated countryItaly Rome
Birth date-0015~
Death date0050~
Profession or occupationFable writers
Found inFábulas de Phedro, 1884 [published in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
Grande encic. Delta Larousse, c1977 : (hdg.: Fedro, Caio Júlio; Latin name Caius Julius Phaedrus or Phaeder; b. into slavery in 15 B.C. in Macedonia and d. 50 A.D.; became a freedman in the household of Emperor Augustus Caesar; Latin fabulist)
New encycl. Brit., 15th ed., c1995 : v. 9, p. 351 (hdg.: Phaedrus; b. ca. 15 B.C. in Thrace; d. ca. 50 A.D., Italy; first writer to Latinize whole books of fables; rendered into Latin iambic verse the Greek prose fables then attributed to Aesop)
Associated languagelat