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List Of Aesop's Fables
This is a list of Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop. Aesop's Fables Titles A–F * '' Aesop and the Ferryman'' * ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'' * ''The Ape and the Fox'' * '' The Ass and his Masters'' * '' The Ass and the Pig'' * '' The Ass Carrying an Image'' * '' The Ass in the Lion's Skin'' * ''The Astrologer who Fell into a Well'' * '' The Bald Man and the Fly'' * '' The Bear and the Travelers'' * '' The Beaver'' * '' The Belly and the Other Members'' * '' The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird'' * '' The Bird in Borrowed Feathers'' * ''The Boy Who Cried Wolf'' * '' The Bulls and the Lion'' * '' The Cat and the Mice'' * '' The Crab and the Fox'' * '' The Cock and the Jewel'' * '' The Cock, the Dog and the Fox'' * ''The Crow and the Pitcher'' * '' The Crow and the Sheep'' * '' The Crow and the Snake'' * ''The Deer without a Heart'' * '' The Dog and Its Reflection'' * ''The Dog and the Sheep'' * '' The Dog and the Wolf'' * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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 Late 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulls And The Lion
The bulls and the lion is counted as one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 372 in the Perry Index. Originally it illustrated the theme of friendship, which was later extended to cover political relations as well. The fable A lion keeps watch on a field in which two, three or four bulls are grazing. Knowing that they will group together to defend each other, the lion sows enmity between them so that they separate and he is able to kill them one by one. Early versions of the fable are in Greek, beginning with Babrius, and there is a later latinised version by Avianus. In the 4th century CE the rhetorician Themistius introduced a variant in which it is a fox that brings discord so that the lion can profit from it. The moral given the story was generally to distrust a foe and hold fast to friends, but in the Syntipas version it was later given a political turn: “This fable shows that the same is true of cities and people: when they are in agreement with one another, they do not allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dove And The Ant
The Dove and the Ant is a story about the reward of compassionate behaviour. Included among Aesop's Fables, it is numbered 235 in the Perry Index. The fable There has been little variation in the fable since it was first recorded in Greek sources. An ant falls into a stream and a dove comes to the rescue by holding out a blade of grass to allow it to climb out. Then, noticing that a fowler was about to catch the dove, the ant bit his foot and his sudden movement caused the bird to fly away. In the Renaissance the Neo-Latin poets Hieronymus Osius and Pantaleon Candidus included it in their fable collections. In England it appeared early in William Caxton's collection of Aesop's fables and was later included in those of Francis Barlow and Samuel Croxall. It also appeared in Thomas Bewick's ''Select Fables'', but was there told of a bee rather than an ant. La Fontaine's Fables also include this story and underline the kinship between it and The Lion and the Mouse by running the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dog And The Wolf
The Dog and the Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 346 in the Perry Index. It has been popular since antiquity as an object lesson of how freedom should not be exchanged for comfort or financial gain. An alternative fable with the same moral concerning different animals is less well known. Freedom is sweet A famished wolf meets a well-fed dog and compliments him on his sleek appearance. The dog describes his life of ease and invites the wolf to join him. As they go on their way, the wolf asks why the fur about the dog's neck is worn away. He replies that it is merely caused by the collar he has to wear at home. The wolf then leaves him, declaring that a full belly is a poor price to pay for liberty. That the fable dates from before Aesop's time is suggested by a single line surviving from a poem by Archilochos in which the question is asked 'what has caused the scruff of his neck to become so worn'. It is conjectured that this refers to some early version of the fable, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dog And The Sheep
The Dog and the Sheep is one of Aesop’s Fables and is numbered 478 in the Perry Index. Originally its subject was the consequence of bearing false witness. However, longer treatments of the story during the Middle Ages change the focus to deal with perversions of justice by the powerful at the expense of the poor. It has sometimes been alternatively titled The Wolf, the Dog and the Sheep in order to distinguish it from the fable of the dispute between the sheep and the dog that guards them (Perry 356). A change of focus The fable as originally told by Phaedrus records the fate reserved to liars. A dog took a sheep to law over a loaf that he claimed to have given it and was supported by a wolf called as witness. Though the sheep lost the case, it later came across the wolf dead in a ditch and drew the moral that this was as a result of heavenly punishment. After the social breakdown of the Middle Ages, the fable's focus changed to misuse of justice and the fate of the poor in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dog And Its Reflection
The Dog and Its Reflection (or Shadow in later translations) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 133 in the Perry Index. The Greek language original was retold in Latin and in this way was spread across Europe, teaching the lesson to be contented with what one has and not to relinquish substance for shadow. There also exist Indian variants of the story. The morals at the end of the fable have provided both English and French with proverbs and the story has been applied to a variety of social situations. The fable A dog that is carrying a stolen piece of meat looks down as it is walking beside or crossing a stream and sees its own reflection in the water. Taking that for another dog carrying something better, it opens its mouth to attack the "other" and in doing so drops what it was carrying. An indication of how old and well-known this story was is given by an allusion to it in the work of the philosopher Democritus from the 5th century BCE. Discussing the foolish human desire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deer Without A Heart
The Deer without a Heart is an ancient fable, attributed to Aesop's Fables, Aesop in Europe and numbered 336 in the Perry Index. It involves a deer (or an ass in Eastern versions) who was twice persuaded by a wily fox to visit the ailing lion. After the lion had killed it, the fox stole and ate the deer's heart. When asked where it is, the fox reasoned that an animal so foolish as to visit a lion in his den cannot have had one, an argument that reflects the ancient belief that the heart was the seat of thoughts and intellect. The story is catalogued as type 52 in the Aarne-Thompson classification system. The story from the East The version of the story found in the Indian ''Panchatantra'' concerns a lion who is persuaded that the cure for his sickness is the ears and heart of an ass. His servant the jackal persuades an ass to accompany him but the lion is too weak to kill the ass on the first attempt and the jackal has to trick it into returning. Afterwards the jackal persuades the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crow And The Snake
The Crow or Raven and the Snake or Serpent is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 128 in the Perry Index. Alternative Greek versions exist and two of these were adopted during the European Renaissance. The fable is not to be confused with the story of this title in the ''Panchatantra'', which is completely different. Alternative Greek versions In ancient times the fable is found only in Greek sources and concerns a crow in search of food that finds a snake asleep in the sun. But when the crow seizes her, the snake kills it with her sting. The story's moral is that good fortune may not be all that it seems. An alternative fable concerning a raven and a scorpion is included as a poem by Archias of Mytilene in the Greek Anthology. The story is much the same but the moral drawn is that the biter shall be bit. Another epigram by Antipater of Thessalonica, dating from the first century BCE, has an eagle carry off an octopus sunning itself on a rock, only to be entangled in its tentacles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crow And The Sheep
The Crow and the Sheep is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 553 in the Perry Index. Only Latin versions of it remain. A sheep reproaches a crow that has perched on its back: 'If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.' To this the bird replies, 'I despise the weak and yield to the strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.' In Marie de France's 12th century version, the sheep is annoyed at having its wool pulled out. Samuel Croxall retitled the tale "The Jackdaw and the Sheep" in his 1722 collection and made the sheep complain of the bird's chattering. The accompanying illustration was imitated on the brownware pottery series issued by Wedgwood Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crow And The Pitcher
''The Crow and the Pitcher'' is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 390 in the Perry Index. It relates ancient observation of corvid behaviour that recent scientific studies have confirmed is goal-directed and indicative of causal knowledge rather than simply being due to instrumental conditioning. The fable and its moral The fable is made the subject of a poem by the first century CE Greek Poet Bianor, was included in the 2nd century fable collection of pseudo-Dositheus and later appears in the 4th–5th-century Latin verse collection by Avianus. The history of this fable in antiquity and the Middle Ages is tracked in A.E. Wright's ''Hie lert uns der meister: Latin Commentary and the Germany Fable''. The story concerns a thirsty crow that comes upon a pitcher with water at the bottom, beyond the reach of its beak. After failing to push it over, the bird drops in pebbles one by one until the water rises to the top of the pitcher, allowing it to drink. In his telling, Avianus fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cock, The Dog And The Fox
The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. Versions of the fable In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at its roots. When the cock crowed in the morning, it attracted a fox that made friendly overtures and tried to lure the bird down. The cock agrees, telling it to ask the porter to open the door so that it can come out. The fox stumbles on the sleeping dog and is killed. An ancient Indian variant of the theme appeared in the Buddhist scriptures as the ''Kukuta-Jataka''. Here a predatory cat, having killed all the other fowls, tries to woo the cock down with a promise of marriage, but he is not to be de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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