Aesop's Fables (Large Print) - Softcover

Aesop

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479153907 ISBN 13: 9781479153909

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Aesop's Fables is a collection credited to a slave that lived in ancient Greece around 600 BCE. A great influence on the proceeding generations as the fables were retold over and over again. Many of the fables we repeat today can be found to trace back to Aesop like "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Lion and the Mouse" and "The Boy Who Called Wolf."Aesop on the other hand had in the first place the wisdom never to identify himself with those who put such stories into verse, but took a line of his own; and in the second, 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.—Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479153907
• ISBN 13: 9781479153909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188