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A sequel, Esope à la cour [69] (Aesop at Court), was first performed in 1701; drawing on a mention in Herodotus 2.134-5 [70] that Aesop had once been owned by the same master as Rhodopis, and the statement in Pliny 36.17 [71] that she was Aesop's concubine as well, the play introduced Rodope as Aesop's mistress, a romantic motif that would be ...
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 ...
1993 Aesop Prize. Cut From The Same Cloth: American Women In Myth, Legend, And Tall Tale, text by Robert D. San Souci, illustr. by Brian Pinkney (Philomel, 1993) Love Flute, text and illustr. by Paul Goble (Bradbury, 1993) 1993 Aesop Accolades (this was the first year the Accolades were awarded)
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]
Other composers went directly to Aesop for their inspiration. In English these include the eleventh item in A Selection of Aesop's Fables Versified and Set to Music with Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Piano Forte (London 1847) and the fifth in Mabel Wood Hill's Aesop's Fables Interpreted Through Music (New York 1920). [26]
It was the Adagia (1508), the proverb collection of Erasmus, that brought the fables to the notice of Renaissance Europe. He recorded the Greek proverb Κόραξ τὸν ὄφιν (translated as corvus serpentem [rapuit]), commenting that it came from Aesop's fable, as well as citing the Greek poem in which it figures and giving a translation. [5]
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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."