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Title:
Aesops Fables
Genre:
Children’s
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Binding:
eBook
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
224
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:56:18
Synopsis:
Aesop’s Fables is the name given to a collection of short, moralistic stories attributed to Aesop, a Thracian wise man who spent most of his life in slavery on the island Samos. The stories each contain hybrids of myth, legend, and social parable, reframing many elements from the oral tradition within Aesop’s didactic moral universe. There are 725 known parables in all, which were told roughly between 620 and 564 BC, but not published at their onset due to their verbal nature.
Most of Aesop’s fables feature personified animals, which generally have a one-to-one symbolic relationship with a vice or virtue. For example, the fox frequently symbolizes cleverness; the hare, agility; the bull, recklessness; the donkey, fatuousness; and the ant, industriousness. Aesop throws these animals together in different social environments and in different combinations, postulating allegorically about what his formulations produce.
In one of his most famous parables, “The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion,” a fox agrees to trick his donkey friend to his doom at the hands of the lion in exchange for eternal protection. The cunning lion pretends to agree and traps and eats the donkey, then eats the fox anyway. The moral of this parable is that treachery begets more treachery, hurting one’s karma by destabilizing a culture of trust.
Most of Aesop’s fables feature personified animals, which generally have a one-to-one symbolic relationship with a vice or virtue. For example, the fox frequently symbolizes cleverness; the hare, agility; the bull, recklessness; the donkey, fatuousness; and the ant, industriousness. Aesop throws these animals together in different social environments and in different combinations, postulating allegorically about what his formulations produce.
In one of his most famous parables, “The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion,” a fox agrees to trick his donkey friend to his doom at the hands of the lion in exchange for eternal protection. The cunning lion pretends to agree and traps and eats the donkey, then eats the fox anyway. The moral of this parable is that treachery begets more treachery, hurting one’s karma by destabilizing a culture of trust.
Author:
Aesop’s Fables
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Publisher:
Barcode:
0448060035
Number of Copies:
1
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$4.88
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-04
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:56:18
