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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 ...
The story of the feud between the eagle and the beetle is one of Aesop's Fables and often referred to in Classical times. [1] It is numbered 3 in the Perry Index [2] and the episode became proverbial. Although different in detail, it can be compared to the fable of The Eagle and the Fox. In both cases the eagle believes itself safe from ...
A painting of the fable in a Greek manuscript, c.1470. The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index.Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry's design for La Fontaine's fable, 1759. An enfeebled fox is plagued by flies, ticks or mosquitoes, of which a hedgehog offers to rid her. The fox refuses such help on the grounds that the insects have already gorged themselves on her blood and hardly trouble her now, but they would inevitably be succeeded by new swarms if removed.
The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]
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 ...