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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 ...
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]
The story appears in the form of a short anecdote in the collection of Phaedrus and concerns an old woman who comes across an empty wine jar, the lingering smell of which she appreciatively sniffs and praises, saying 'Oh sweet spirits, I do declare, how excellent you must once have been to have left behind such fine remains!' [1] Phaedrus is playing with the comic stereotype of the drunken old ...
The same story reappears in Alfred de Saint-Quentin's poem in Guyanese creole, Dé Chat ké Makak (The Two Cats and the Monkey) [16] and also makes an early English appearance in Jefferys Taylor's Aesop in Rhyme. [17] A much earlier Indian variation on the story appears in the Buddhist scriptures as the Dabbhapuppha Jataka. [18]
The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master stratagem. Included in collections of Aesop's fables since the start of printing in Europe, it is number 605 in the Perry Index. In the basic story a cat and a ...
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 ...
The kind of skewed logic in operation here, seeming to confuse cause and effect, is often found in the fables and led Aristophanes to characterise such stories as 'Aesop's jests'. [1] Its function, however, is to fix attention on the distinction in practical philosophy between the immediate and the ultimate good.