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Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
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The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) A 19th century Minton tile illustrating the fable. The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index. There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed on an ancient Greek vase. [ 1] The story is used as a warning against listening to flattery.
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 ...
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. 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 ...
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The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants ), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [ 1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the ...
The Tortoise and the Hare. " The Tortoise and the Hare " is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. [ 1] The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to ...