Stories With Moral--Writing from Imagination
- The Tree and the Reed
- The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- The Tortoise and the Birds
- The Thief and the House-Dog An Aesop's Fable
- The Swallow and the Other Birds
- The Stag at the Pool
- The Sick Stag
- The Shepherd's Boy
- The Serpent and the File
- The Peacock and Juno
- The Ox and the Frog
- The One-Eyed Doe
- The Horse and the Stag
- The Horse and the Ass
- The Hart in the Ox Stall
- The Hart and the Hunter
- The Hare With Many Friends
- The Hares and the Frogs
- The Hare and the Tortoise
- The Hare and the Hound
- The Goose With the Golden Eggs Fable
- The Frogs Seeking a King
- The Frog and the Ox
- The Fox Without a Tail
- The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog
- The Fox and the Stork
- The Fox and the Mosquitoes
- The Fox and the Mask
- The Fox and the Lion
- The Fox and the Grapes
- The Fox and the Goat
- The Fox and the Crow
- The Fox and the Cat
- The Fisher and the Little Fish
- The Fisher and the Little Fish
- The Wolf and the Lamb
- The Four Oxen and the Lion
- The Fisher and the Little Fish
- The Fisher An Aesop's Fable
- The Young Thief and His Mother
- The Woodman and the Serpent
- The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- The Wolf and the Kid
- The Wolf and the Horse
- The Wolf and the Crane
- The Wind and the Sun
- The Vine and the Goat
- The Vain Jackdaw
- The Two Pots
- The Two Frogs
- The Two Fellows and the Bear One of the Fables of...
- The Two Crabs An Aesop's Fable
- The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
- The Trees and the Axe An Aesop's Fable
- The Sick Lion
- The Eagle and the Arrow An Aesop's Fable An Eagle ...
- The Dove and the Crow An Aesop's Fable
- The Dogs and the Hides An Aesop's Fable An Aesop'...
Stories Writing or Writing From Imagination .
{unique start}The One-Eyed Doe Fable
The Ox and the Frog
The Peacock and Juno Fable
The Serpent and the File Fable
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The Shepherd's Boy FableThe Sick Lion Fable
The Sick Stag
The Stag at the Pool
The Swallow and the Other Birds Fable
The Thief and the House-Dog
The Tortoise and the Birds Fable
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse Fable
The Tree and the Reed Fable
The Trees and the Axe
The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner Fable
The Two Crabs Fable
The Two Fellows and the Bear Fable
The Two Frogs
The Two Pots Fable
The Vain Jackdaw
The Vine and the Goat
The Wind and the Sun Fable
The Wolf and the Crane Fable
The Wolf and the Horse
The Wolf and the Kid Fable
The Wolf and the Lamb Fable
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Fable
The Woodman and the Serpent Fable
The Young Thief and His Mother Fable
Who is Aesop? Who is Aesop? Aesop is the name of the man credited with the authorship of a collection or book of fables. Aesop was a slave who many believe lived in Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea but others say he came from Ethiopia. The name of his first owner was Xanthus. It is believed that he eventually became a free man. In Aesop's biography Planudes describes Aesop an ugly, deformed dwarf, and the famous marble statue at the Villa Albani in Rome depicts Aesop accordingly.
Aesop's Statue in Rome
Who is Aesop and where was he born?
There are many possibilities relating to Aesop's place of birth, although he certainly spent much of his life living in Greece at the court of King Croesus in Athens. Suggestions for Aesop's place of birth include Thrace, Greece, Phrygia, Ethiopia and Samos.
Who is Aesop and what did he look like?His very name, Aesop, may however give us a clue to his country of origin. The name Aesop is derived from the Greek word Aethiop which means Ethiopia! And Aesop was described by Maximus Planudes (c.1260-c.1330), the Byzantine scholar who wrote a biography of Aesop and a prose version of Aesop's fables, as follows "His visage was of black hue". In Aesop's biography Planudes describes Aesop an ugly, deformed dwarf, and the famous marble statue at the Villa Albani in Rome depicts Aesop accordingly.When were Aesop's famous fables first translated into English?
Aesop's fables were first printed in English by William Caxton in 1484, from his own translation made from the French. Aesop's fables were not believed to have been written as Children's literature and the book of fables were originally used to make thinly disguised social and political criticisms. The similarity to parables or allegories can be seen in most of the short tales in Aesop's Book of Fables.
Aesop's fables?
Many of Aesop's fables in this compilation from the book have in fact since been found on Egyptian papyri known to date between 800 and 1000 years before Aesop's time. This clearly cast doubts on the authorship of many of the fables attributed to Aesop and the Aesop's Fables book. Many of the fables were possibly merely compiled by Aesop from existing fables, much in the same way that the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes were but a new compilation of existing rhymes! The Morals, Sayings and Proverbs featured in Aesop's fables Each one of Aesop's fables has a lesson, or moral, to teach to children - just like a parable or allegory. A moral is added at the bottom of each of Aesop's fables. Many of the Morals, Sayings and Proverbs featured in Aesop's fables are well known today. Some of the most famous morals are as follows:
The Morals, Sayings and Proverbs featured in the Book of Aesop's fables ensure that they still have meaning for us today.
When were the first of Aesop's great Book of fables written?
It is not known exactly when the first Book of Aesop's fables were written as the fables were originally handed down from one generation to the next just like a myths, tales and legends. It is, however, believed that Aesop lived from about 620 to 560 B.C.
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