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The Fisherman and the Little Fish; The Fly and the Ant; The Fly in the Soup; The Fowler and the Snake; The Fox and the Crow; The Fox and the Grapes; The Fox and the Lion; The Fox and the Mask; The Fox and the Sick Lion; The Fox and the Stork; The Fox and the Weasel; The Fox and the Woodman; The Fox, the Flies and the Hedgehog; The Frightened ...
In the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables, Arthur Rackham chose to picture the carefree frogs at play on their King Log, a much rarer subject among illustrators. [13] But the French artist Benjamin Rabier, having already illustrated a collection of La Fontaine's fables, subverted the whole subject in a later picture, Le Toboggan ('The sleigh-run ...
The Frog and the Ox appears among Aesop's Fables and is numbered 376 in the Perry Index. [1] The story concerns a frog that tries to inflate itself to the size of an ox , but bursts in the attempt. It has usually been applied to socio-economic relations.
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 Fable of Fox and Heron is an oil painting by Frans Snyders depicting the story from Aesop's Fable.It was created in Antwerp sometime between 1630 and 1640, [1] the painting is a composite of two stories, "The Fable of the Fox and Heron (or stork)" and "The Frogs who asked for a King". [2]
A frog leaves his native swamp and proclaims himself a wonder-working doctor. He is then asked by a sceptical fox how it is that he cannot cure his own lameness and sickly complexion. The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, " Physician, heal thyself ", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures).
The Fisherman and the Little Fish is one of Aesop's fables. It is numbered 18 in the Perry Index. [1] Babrius records it in Greek and Avianus in Latin. The story concerns a small fry caught by a fisherman (or "angler") that begs for its life on account of its size and suggests that waiting until it is larger would make it a more filling meal ...
La Fontaine's contribution was a long fable with the same title (Le soleil et les grenouilles), dating from this time but not included among his fables until the final volume. The (Dutch) frogs, having spread to every shore, are now complaining of the tyranny of the Solar Monarch (Louis XIV).