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  2. File:Æsop's fables- (IA aesopfables00aesoiala).pdf - Wikipedia

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  3. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. The milkmaid and her pail - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Offenbach as the fourth of his 6 Fables (1842) [32] Benjamin Godard, the first of his Six Fables de La Fontaine (Op. 17 1872/9) [33] [34] Louis Lacombe for piano and voice (Op. 73.3, 1875) [35] Abbé Léon-Robert Brice, who set it to a traditional melody, adjusting the poem to six-syllable lines to fit the music [36]

  5. Ben Edwin Perry - Wikipedia

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    He graduated from University of Michigan, and Princeton University. [2]He was author of Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop and many other books. His Aesopica ("A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him or Closely Connected with the Literal Tradition that Bears His Name") has become the definitive edition of all fables reputed to be by Aesop, with fables ...

  6. Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. The Old Woman and the Wine-jar - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. The Eagle and the Beetle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. The Ape and the Dolphin - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Doré's 1867 print of the ape astride a sea monster. The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. [1] Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables, it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century.