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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 ...
Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ...
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 ...
Walter Crane's illustration from Baby's Own Aesop, 1887. The Fir and the Bramble is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 304 in the Perry Index. [1] It is one of a group in which trees and plants debate together, which also includes The Trees and the Bramble and The Oak and the Reed.
There are ancient Greek versions of the fable, and it was included in the Medici Manuscript collection of Aesop's fables [2] dating from the 1470s. [3] However, its earliest appearance in another language is as number 60 in the collection of 150 fables in Latin verse by the Austrian poet Pantaleon Candidus (1604). [4]
In La Fontaine's Fables the ant's provident industry is highlighted, [9] as it is in the contemporary collection illustrated by Francis Barlow [10] as well as in the prose reflections of Samuel Croxall [11] and Thomas Bewick. [12]
An illustration of the fable by E. J. Detmold in The Fables of Aesop (1909). The Trees and the Bramble is a composite title which covers a number of fables of similar tendency, ultimately deriving from a Western Asian literary tradition of debate poems between two contenders. [1]