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The Dog and Its Reflection (or Shadow in later translations) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 133 in the Perry Index. [1] The Greek language original was retold in Latin and in this way was spread across Europe, teaching the lesson to be contented with what one has and not to relinquish substance for shadow.
The Cat and the Mice; The Crab and the Fox; The Cock and the Jewel; The Cock, the Dog and the Fox; The Crow and the Pitcher; The Crow and the Sheep; The Crow and the Snake; The Deer without a Heart; The Dog and Its Reflection; The Dog and the Sheep; The Dog and the Wolf; The Dogs and the Lion's Skin; The Dove and the Ant; The Eagle and the ...
A musical, Aesop's Fables by British playwright Peter Terson, first produced in 1983, [151] was performed by the Isango Portobello company, directed by Mark Dornford-May at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2010. [152] The play tells the story of the black slave Aesop, who learns that freedom is earned and kept through being ...
Aesop's Fables (previously titled Aesop's Film Fables and Aesop's Sound Fables) is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. [1] Produced from 1921 to 1934, the series includes The Window Washers (1925), Scrambled Eggs (1926), Small Town Sheriff (1927), Dinner Time (1928), and Gypped in Egypt (1930).
An illustration of the fable by J.M.Condé, 1905. The Dog and the Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 346 in the Perry Index. [1] It has been popular since antiquity as an object lesson of how freedom should not be exchanged for comfort or financial gain. An alternative fable with the same moral concerning different animals is less well known.
"Aesop's Fables: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg" (25 February 1981) "Aesop's Fables: The Dog and the Shadow" (2 March 1981) "Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Goat" (4 March 1981) "Aesop's Fables: The Fir-Tree and the Bramble" (9 March 1981) "Do as I Say" (11 March 1981) "Come Dance with Me" (16 March 1981) "Let's Sing Together" (18 March 1981)
Fabill 6 (The Sheep and the Dog) is the third of the Aesopian tales in the Morall Fabillis. Of the thirteen poems in the cycle, it is one of the most starkly written and the adaptation of its source (Aesop's The Sheep and the Dog) is not at all straightforward. Henryson's version portrays the relationship between the two figures in terms of a ...
A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.