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Aesop's Fables

By Aesop
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of 600 traditional tales featuring morals and lessons drawn from the animal kingdom and human nature. This edition offers a comprehensive new translation, assembling all the main fables from ancient Greek and Latin sources, including many never before rendered in English. From the tortoise and the hare to the boy who cried wolf, these enduring stories have delighted readers for nearly two millennia.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in classical literature, folklore, and moral storytelling. Suitable for students, educators, and anyone who appreciates enduring cultural tales.

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This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek derived from the legendary Aesop, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.

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The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature.

First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf?

This new translation of Aesop's Fables is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.

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"Laura Gibbs has recently brought out a splendid translation with a very helpful introduction of the bulk of the fables in the Oxford World's Classics." — Gabriel Josipovici, TLS

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199540754

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Laura Gibbs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 254g

Pages: 352

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Aesop Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Laura Gibbs completed her M.Phil. in European Literature at St Antony's College, Oxford and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She has also studied and taught at the Centre for the Study of Anthropology and the Ancient World at the University of Siena in Italy. She is currently employed as a specialist in academic computing at the University of Oklahoma where she is developing Latin and Greek teaching tools for use on the Internet.

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