Definition of Aesopic. Meaning of Aesopic. Synonyms of Aesopic

- 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...
- 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...
- who also gathered and edited fables for posterity. In the Renaissance, Aesopic fables were hugely po****r. They were published in luxurious illuminated...
- 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:...
- the Indic fable in which animals behave as humans — as distinct from the Aesopic fable in which they behave as animals. Its philosophical heroes through...
- 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...
- subsequently released on mankind, the poet Babrius preserved a later alternative Aesopic aetiology in which the jar contained blessings meant for mankind which...
- 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...