- and the
fables featuring African animals may have
entered the body of
Aesopic fables long
after Aesop actually lived. Nevertheless, in 1932 the anthropologist...
- Dolus, lit. 'Deception, Guile, Deceit') is a
figure who
appears in an
Aesopic fable by the
Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus,
where he is an apprentice...
- who also
gathered and
edited fables for posterity. In the Renaissance,
Aesopic fables were
hugely po****r. They were
published in
luxurious illuminated...
-
further to the East.
Modern scholarship reveals fables and
proverbs of
Aesopic form
existing in both
ancient Sumer and Akkad, as
early as the
third millennium...
- It was the
subject of a 15th-century
fable that
eventually entered the
Aesopic canon. The
proverb and
several similar European proverbs ultimately derive...
-
Jugurthinum of
Roman Republican writer Sallust. The
similar moral of the
Aesopic fable "The Old Man and his Sons" has been
rendered in
various related ways:...
-
contained blessings rather than evils. It is
confirmed in the new era by an
Aesopic fable recorded by Babrius, in
which the gods send the jar
containing blessings...
-
subsequently released on mankind, the poet
Babrius preserved a
later alternative Aesopic aetiology in
which the jar
contained blessings meant for
mankind which...
-
numbered 613,
which is
reserved for
Mediaeval attributions outside the
Aesopic canon. The
fable concerns a
group of mice who
debate plans to
nullify the...
- The
Masque of the
Seven Sages Diogenes Laërtius, i. 42
Leslie Kurke,
Aesopic Conversations: Po****r Tradition,
Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention...
