主な研究対象は古代の寓話と、当時としては珍しいジャンルであった古代の小説。著書Aesopica, a Series of Texts Relating to Aesop Or Ascribed to Him Or Closely Connected with the Literary Tradition that Bears His Nameではアイソーポス(イソップ)の寓話を、その初出文献に基づいて整序した。その索引番号はペリー・インデックスと呼ばれ研究目的に広く使用されている[3]。
Ben Edwin Perry The Text-tradition of the Greek Life of Aesop, Ben Edwin Perry ... (1933)
Ben Edwin Perry Babrius and Phaedrus (Heinemann, 1965) - 編著
Aesop Aesopica: Greek and Latin texts (University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN025203192X) - 編著
Ben Edwin Perry The Ancient Romances: Literary-historical Account of Their Origins (University of California Press, 1967)
Ésope Aesopica, a Series of Texts Relating to Aesop Or Ascribed to Him Or Closely Connected with the Literary Tradition that Bears His Name Collected ... by Ben Edwin Perry. Vol. 1. Greek and Latin Texts (University of Illinois Press, 1952) - 編著
Ben Edwin Perry The Collected Papers of Ben Edwin Perry on Ancient Fiction Stephen M. Bay, Stephen Trzaskoma編 (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
その他
Burton Alviere Milligan, John R. Frey, Philip Kolb編 Classical Studies Presented to Ben Edwin Perry by His Students and Colleagues at the University of Illinois, 1924-60 (University of Illinois Press, 1969)
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados Rezension . Ben Edwin Perry: Aesopica. A series of texts relating to Aesop or ascribed to him or closely connected with the literary tradition that bears his name. Volume I: Greek and Latin texts (The Univ. of Illinois Press, 1952)
出典
^ abcWard W. Briggs, ed (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 494–496. ISBN0-313-24560-6
^ abJohn A. Garraty et Mark C. Carnes, ed (1999). American National Biography. 17. Oxford University Press. pp. 361-362
^Laura Gibbs, ed (2002). Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press. p. xxxiii. ISBN9780192840509. "the most comprehensive and reliable system currently available"