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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]
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...
Credited as among Aesop's Fables, and recorded in Latin by Phaedrus, [1] the fable is numbered 137 in the Perry Index. [2] There are also versions by the so-called Syntipas (47) via the Syriac, Ademar of Chabannes (60) in Mediaeval Latin, and in Medieval English by William Caxton (4.16). The story concerns a flea that travels on a camel and ...
The Satyr and the Peasant, c. 1650, at Christie's. The Satyr and the Peasant or The Satyr and the Peasant Family is the title commonly given to a number of paintings executed by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens and his workshop based on the fable of the Satyr and the Peasant from Aesop's Fables.
He graduated from University of Michigan, and Princeton University. [2]He was author of Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop and many other books. His Aesopica ("A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him or Closely Connected with the Literal Tradition that Bears His Name") has become the definitive edition of all fables reputed to be by Aesop, with fables ...
The Satyr and the Traveller, illustrated by Walter Crane, 1887. The Satyr and the Traveller (or Peasant) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 35 in the Perry Index.The popular idiom 'to blow hot and cold' is associated with it and the fable is read as a warning against duplicity.
A traditional Mexican ox-cart. The Oxen and the Creaking Cart is a situational fable ascribed to Aesop and is numbered 45 in the Perry Index. [1] Originally directed against complainers, it was later linked with the proverb 'the worst wheel always creaks most' [2] and aimed emblematically at babblers of all sorts.
The Fox and the Woodman is a cautionary story against hypocrisy included among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 22 in the Perry Index. [1] Although the same basic plot recurs, different versions have included a variety of participants.