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Definition of AEsopic

AEsopic
AEsopic [AE]*sop"ic, Esopic E*sop"ic, a. [L. Aesopicus, Gr. ?.] Same as [AE]sopian.

Meaning of AEsopic from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...