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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    1 Aesop's Fables. Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of Aesop's ...

  4. The miller, his son and the donkey - Wikipedia

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    The same story is told among the "100 Fables" (Fabulae Centum) of Gabriele Faerno (1564) [11] and as the opening poem in Giovanni Maria Verdizotti's Cento favole morali (1570). [12] It also appeared in English in Merry Tales and Quick Answers or Shakespeare's Jest Book (c. 1530) with the same ending of the old man throwing the ass into the ...

  5. Aesop - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. William Caxton - Wikipedia

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    Caxton printed 80 percent of his works in the English language. He translated a large number of works into English and performed much of the translation and the editing work himself. He is credited with printing as many as 108 books, 87 of which were different titles, including the first English translation of Aesop's Fables (26 March 1484 [26 ...

  7. The Frog and the Mouse - Wikipedia

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    A plate from 1880 illustrating the fable. The Frog and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables and exists in several versions. It is numbered 384 in the Perry Index. [1] There are also Eastern versions of uncertain origin which are classified as Aarne-Thompson type 278, concerning unnatural relationships. [2]

  8. The Dove and the Ant - Wikipedia

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    La Fontaine's fable was later set by Paul Bonneau among his 10 Fables de La Fontaine (1957) and Aesop's is the fourth of five pieces by Anthony Plog for narrator, piano and horn (1989/93). [11] Later it also appeared among the three in Canadian Yvonne Gillespie's Aesop's Fables for narrator and full orchestra (2001).

  9. The Fox and the Grapes - Wikipedia

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    The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668 . The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, [1] numbered 15 in the Perry Index. [2] The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot ...

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