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This are a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, or stories about him, which have been in many Wikipedia articles. Many hundreds of others have been collected his creation of fables over the centuries, as described on the Aesopica website. [1]
A musical, Aesop's Fables by British playwright Peter Terson, first produced in 1983, [151] was performed by the Isango Portobello company, directed by Mark Dornford-May at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010. [152] The play tells the story of the black slave Aesop, who learns that freedom is earned and kept through being ...
An original fable by Laurentius Abstemius demonstrates the kinship between the story of "The Eagle and the Fox" and another by Aesop about The Eagle and the Beetle.In the Abstemius story, an eagle seizes some young rabbits to feed its young and tears them to pieces despite their mother's plea for mercy, thinking that an earth-bound creature could do it no harm.
The Snake and the Farmer is a fable attributed to Aesop, of which there are ancient variants and several more from both Europe and India dating from Mediaeval times. The story is classed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 285D, and its theme is that a broken friendship cannot be mended. [1]
When William Caxton featured the story in 1484, he added a comment advising caution against hypocrisy, again quoting the scriptural admonition. [4] By the time the fable appeared in the collection illustrated by Francis Barlow (1687) the emphasis had shifted to asking for proof to back the frog's boasts: Pretences which no reall actions prop,
"The Monkey King", Johann Elias Ridinger's Fable XIII, 1744 The Ape and the Fox is a fable credited to Aesop and is numbered 81 in the Perry Index. [1] However, the story goes back before Aesop's time and an alternative variant may even be of Asian origin.
The Weasel and Aphrodite [a] (Ancient Greek: Γαλῆ καὶ Ἀφροδίτη, romanized: Galê kaì Aphrodítē), also known as Venus and the Cat is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 50 in the Perry Index. A fable on the cynic theme of the constancy of one's nature, it serves as a cautionary tale against trusting those with evil temper, for ...