Jesper Svenbro [SEP] place of birth
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro (born 10 March 1944, in Landskrona, Scania) is a Swedish poet, classical philologist, and member of the Swedish Academy.
Biography.
Svenbro was educated at Lund University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1976 for his dissertation "La parole et le marbre: aux origines de la poétique grecque", on the origin of ancient Greek poetics. Other works include "Phrasikleia: anthropologie de la lecture en Grèce ancienne" (1988). He is director of research at
democracy, who nevertheless places Samos under the tyrannical rule of Syloson, brother of Polycrates and a traitor to his fellow Samians. It is possible that Telesarchus is a composite created by Herodotus to represent a point of view; his name can be translated as "End-Rule."
A political fable.
Marcel Detienne, a specialist in the anthropological approach to Greek culture, writing with Jesper Svenbro, uses the story of Maeandrius and Telesarchus in conjunction with Aesopic fable to explore the theme of "the wolf longing for