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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse 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 and in popular as well as artistic media.

The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the later Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors.

On the arrival of printing, collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted throughout the world.

This collection consists of 214 Aesop's fables.


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  • 72 seiten

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Englisch


  1. Classic Short Stories for Kids: The Best Collection of Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, and Bedtime Stories for Children. Have a Relaxing Night's Sleep with Sweet Dreams! :

    Kids Club, Jacob & Wihelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang, Lyman Frank Baum, Charles Perrault, Jon Scieszka, Joseph Jacobs, Mary Howitt, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Southey, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Aesop

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  2. The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Three: 10 Novels and Stories from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Homer, Machiavelli, & More

    Daniel Defoe, Homer, Jonathan Swift, The Brothers Grimm, Niccolo Machiavelli, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Aesop

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  3. The Complete Fables of Aesop : Timeless Tales of Wisdom and Morality

    Aesop, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  4. Aesop's Fables Illustrated : Timeless Tales with Captivating Artwork

    Aesop, Zenith Crescent Moon Press

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  5. Aesop's Fables

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  6. Aesop's Fables-A New Revised Edition

    Aesop

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  7. Aesop's Fables - New Translation

    Aesop

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  8. Gesammelte Werke und Tiermärchen von Aesop (Äsop) : Zeitlose Weisheiten und tierische Moral

    Aesop

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  9. Gesammelte Werke und Tiermärchen von Aesop (Äsop)

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  10. Aesop's Fables : Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

    Aesop, Bookish

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  11. Classic Short Stories for Children: The Best Collection of Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables and Bedtime Stories for Kids. Have a Relaxing Night's Sleep with Beautiful Dreams! :

    Kids Club, Jacob & Wihelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Abbie Phillips Walker, Joseph Jacobs, Aesop

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