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Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880. Sharpe's limerick versions of Aesop's fables appeared in 1887. This was in a magnificently hand-produced Arts and Crafts Movement edition, The Baby's Own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. [94]
Aesop may not have written his fables. The Aesop Romance claims that he wrote them down and deposited them in the library of Croesus; Herodotus calls Aesop a "writer of fables" and Aristophanes speaks of "reading" Aesop, [16] but that might simply have been a compilation of fables ascribed to him. [17]
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well; The Bald Man and the Fly; The Bear and the Travelers; The Beaver; The Belly and the Other Members; The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird ...
Aesop's fables were popular at the time rhetoric became a common topic of study. There are three forms of fable : the rational form (where characters are men and women), the ethical form (where animals are protagonists), and a third form involving both.
The grasshopper and the ant are generally depicted as women because both words for the insects are of the feminine gender in most Romance languages. Picturing the grasshopper as a musician, generally carrying a mandolin or guitar, was a convention that grew up when the insect was portrayed as a human being, since singers accompanied themselves ...
Frank E. McGurrin, an expert on the early Remington typewriter, used it in demonstrating his touch typing abilities in January 1889. [2] It has appeared in a number of typing books, often in the form "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."
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In addition there was an English-language version set by Bob Chilcott as the fourth in his Aesop's Fables for piano and choir (2008); [54] [55] and a purely musical interpretation for small orchestra by Matt Fernald as the first part of his musical thesis composition, performed under the title An Evening with Aesop in 2013. [56] [57]