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AESOP FABLES
(284 fables) IPOD AUDIOBOOK 1 CD
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop’s
Fables tell universal truths through the use of
simple allegories that are easily understood.
Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself,
and some scholars question whether he existed at
all, these stories stand as timeless classics
known in almost every culture in the world.
Summary by Chip
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a
collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560
BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in
Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a
blanket term for collections of brief fables,
usually involving personified animals. The
fables remain a popular choice for moral
education of children today. Many stories
included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox
and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour
grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the
Hare, The North Wind and the Sun
and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are
well-known throughout the world.
Apollonius of Tyana, the 1st century AD
philosopher, is recorded as having said about
Aesop:
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"...like those who dine well off
the plainest dishes, he made use of
humble incidents to teach great truths,
and after serving up a story he adds to
it the advice to do a thing or not to do
it. Then, too, he was really more
attached to truth than the poets are;
for the latter do violence to their own
stories in order to make them probable;
but he by announcing a story which
everyone knows not to be true, told the
truth by the very fact that he did not
claim to be relating real events.
And there is another charm about him,
namely, that he puts animals in a
pleasing light and makes them
interesting to mankind. For after being
brought up from childhood with these
stories, and after being as it were
nursed by them from babyhood, we acquire
certain opinions of the several animals
and think of some of them as royal
animals, of others as silly, of others
as witty, and others as innocent. (Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana,
Book V:14)
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Approx Run time: 6 1/2
hours
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