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The wind attempts to strip the traveler of his cloak, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology The Sun persuades the traveler to take off his cloak. The story concerns a competition between the North wind and the Sun to decide which is the stronger.
The North Wind and the Sun; The Oak and the Reed; The Old Man and Death; The Old Man and his Sons; The Old Man and the Ass; The Old Woman and the Doctor; The Old Woman and the Wine-jar; The Oxen and the Creaking Cart
Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. 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 .
When the fable figured in 16th century emblem books, more emphasis was put on the moral lesson to be learned, to which the story acted as a mere appendage.Thus Hadrianus Junius tells the fable in a four-line Latin poem and follows it with a lengthy commentary, part of which reads: "By contrast we see the reed obstinately holding out against the power of cloudy storms, and overcoming the onrush ...
The Travellers and the Plane Tree is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 175 in the Perry Index. [1] It may be compared with The Walnut Tree as having for theme ingratitude for benefits received. In this story two travellers rest from the sun under a plane tree. One of them describes it as useless and the tree protests at this view when they are ...
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The earliest English account of the story as a separate fable appears in Roger L'Estrange's Fables of Aesop (1692) under the title "The Moon Begs a New Gown", but in his case the moral given is that "the Humour of many People [is] to be perpetually Longing for something or other that's not to be had", since "there is no Measure to be taken of an Unsteady Mind". [4]
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