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Kian is the English variant of the Gaelic Irish given name Cian, [1] meaning "ancient". [2] A variant spelling of Kian is Kyan . Kian ( Persian : کیان) is also a common Persian given name meaning "king" or "realm".
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]
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 ...
"The Monkey King", Johann Elias Ridinger's Fable XIII, 1744 The Ape and the Fox is a fable credited to Aesop and is numbered 81 in the Perry Index. [1] However, the story goes back before Aesop's time and an alternative variant may even be of Asian origin.
Kalīla wa-Dimna or Kelileh o Demneh (Persian: کلیله و دمنه) is a collection of fables. The book consists of fifteen chapters containing many fables whose heroes are animals. The book consists of fifteen chapters containing many fables whose heroes are animals.
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The moral drawn in Mediaeval Latin retellings of the fable such as those of Adémar de Chabannes and Romulus Anglicus [7] was that one should learn from the misfortunes of others, but it was also given a political slant by the additional comment that "it is easier to enter the house of a great lord than to get out of it", as William Caxton expressed it in his English version. [8]