[PDF] FABLES D`ESOPE

Where did Aesop's fables come from?

A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.

How many Fables are there in Aesopica?

Aesopica: over 600 English fables, plus Caxton's Aesop, Latin and Greek texts, Content Index, and Site Search. Vita et Aesopus moralisatus [Aesop's Fables, Italian and Latin.] Naples: [Germani fidelissimi for] Francesco del Tuppo, 13 February 1485. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress Esopus [Moralisatus].

Who translated Aesop's fables into Latin elegiacs?

Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables into Latin elegiacs. The 4th-century grammarian Dositheus Magister also made a collection of Aesop's Fables, now lost.

Are Aesop's Fables apt to delight and entertain a child?

Aesop's fables in his opinion are apt to delight and entertain a child ... yet afford useful reflection to a grown man. And if his memory retain them all his life after, he will not repent to find them there, amongst his manly thoughts and serious business.