- and the
fables featuring African animals may have
entered the body of
Aesopic fables long
after Aesop actually lived. Nevertheless, in 1932 the anthropologist...
- In
classical mythology,
Dolus (Deception) is a
figure who
appears in an
Aesopic fable by the
Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus,
where he is an apprentice...
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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...
-
Fable is a
literary genre defined as a
succinct fictional story, in
prose or verse, that
features animals,
legendary creatures, plants,
inanimate objects...
-
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...
-
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...
- The
Masque of the
Seven Sages Diogenes Laërtius, i. 42
Leslie Kurke,
Aesopic Conversations: Po****r Tradition,
Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention...
-
Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (in French). 112 (3): 430. Kurke,
Leslie (2011).
Aesopic Conversations.
Princeton University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-691-14457-3...