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The cat turned into a woman (La chatte métamorphosée en femme, II.18) The coach and the fly (Le coche et la mouche, VII.9) The Cobbler and the Financier (Le savetier et le financier, VIII.2) The cock and the fox (Le coq et le renard, II.15) The cock and the pearl (Le coq et la perle, I.20) Death and the woodman (La Mort et le bûcheron, I.16)
La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, [1] US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə-, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /; [2] [3] French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
Fabula, Latin word for a fable; Fabula, Latin word for a play (see Theatre of ancient Rome) Fabula atellana, Attelan farce; Fabula palliata, Roman comedy in a Greek setting; Fabula togata, Roman comedy in a Roman setting; Fabula crepidata, Roman tragedy in a Greek setting; Fabula praetexta, Roman tragedy in a Roman setting
Krylov had learned French while still a child and his early work followed La Fontaine closely. Though he lacked Latin, he taught himself Koine Greek from a New Testament in about 1819, [38] and so was able to read Aesop in the original rather than remaining reliant on La Fontaine's recreations of Latin versions. The major difference between ...