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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 ...
F. Gabriele Faerno; The Farmer and his Sons; The Farmer and the Stork; The Farmer and the Viper; The Fir and the Bramble; The Fisherman and his Flute; The Fisherman and the Little Fish
Three hundred Aesop's fables Frontispiece illustration of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) was the British translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. He was the son of George Townsend and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge-DCL 1876. He was Vicar of Barntingham ...
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]
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.