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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 ...
Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ...
The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, "Physician, heal thyself", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures). The fable was recorded in Greek by Babrius , [ 2 ] and afterwards was Latinised by Avianus . [ 3 ]
The fable is also included in Isabelle Aboulker's Les Fables Enchantées (2004). [ 15 ] There have also been French dramatic treatments, including the three-act comédie rustique of 1935 by H. Frederic Pottecher (1905–2001) [ 16 ] and the 1936 one-act version by painter-playwright Henri Brochet (1898–1952).
There are ancient Greek versions of the fable, and it was included in the Medici Manuscript collection of Aesop's fables [2] dating from the 1470s. [3] However, its earliest appearance in another language is as number 60 in the collection of 150 fables in Latin verse by the Austrian poet Pantaleon Candidus (1604). [4]
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School is a 2007 children's novel by Candace Fleming. A follow-up novel, Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School , was published in 2010. [ 1 ]
Aesop's original fable was made the subject of a painting by Frans Snyders which in the 18th century entered the collection of the dukes of Newcastle. Robert Earlom (1743-1822) made a mezzotint engraving of this in 1772, of which there are both hand-coloured [ 6 ] and plain versions. [ 7 ]