Aesop's Fables, Volume 7 (Fables 151-175)

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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 the 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 later 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 recent work and sometimes from known authors.

 This is Volume 7 of 12.

The Cock and The Jewel


The Wolf and The Shepherd


The Farmer and The Stork


The Charger and The Miller


The Grasshopper and The Owl


The Grasshopper and The Ants


The Farmer and The Viper


The Two Frogs


The Cobler Turned Doctor


The Ass, The Cock, and The Lion


The Belly and The Members


The Bald Man and the Fly


The Ass and the Wolf


The Monkey and The Camel


The Sick Man and The Doctor


The Travellers and The Plane-Tree


The Flea and the Ox


The Birds, The Beasts, and The Bat


The Man and His Two Sweethearts


The Eagle, the Jackdaw and the Shepherd


The Wolf and The Boy


The Miller, His Son and their Ass


The Stag and the Vine


The Lamb Chased by a Wolf


The Archer and the Lion


Manuscripts in Latin and Greek were important avenues of transmission, although poetical treatments in European vernaculars eventually formed another. On the arrival of printing, collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted throughout the world.

Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. In addition, there have been reinterpretations of the meaning of fables and changes in emphasis over time.

Aesop:

Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BCE): was a Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.

Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave , who by his cleverness acquires freedom and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name have included Esop(e) and Isope. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last 2500 years have included many works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs.

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