Aesop’s death has often been compared to that of Neoptolemus, who was also killed at Delphi, so that their similarities have recently led to the hypothesis that the story about the fabulist may have originated as a parody ...

he strophades are one of those places that enter into the imagination of a culture and shape its vision of the world. these islands entered the Greek cosmographical world as an etiological myth resulting from the transposition ...