Stay Out of Court The Manager's Guide to Preventing Employee Lawsuits

This neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two new critical editions of the 14th-century anonymous poem, Nicholas and Baloglou reveal the full texture of this unique genre of the Byzantine period. Predating Orwell's Animal Farm by six hundred years, the story describes an allegorical convention of animals, or quadrupeds, in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity and denigrates its partners, ending in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style and context of the poem.