Aesopic

An Aesopic fable, commented on by the Byzantine scholar Eustathius (I.V. graec. 132), relates that Prometheus fitted the human breast with gates to render our thoughts and feelings impregnable to others.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

He is the author of several books of poetry, of which the most recent are_ The Hard Hours _ (1967) and_ Aesopic _ (1968).

Songs of Childhood Walter De la Mare 1914

Simple Aesopic fables in prose seem best for the first two grades.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fables which the ancients themselves distinguished from the Aesopic Fables.

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

As Prof. Rhys-Davids remarks, the Indian form gives a plausible motive for the masquerade which is wanting in the ordinary Aesopic version.

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

-- I have selected _The Wolf and the Crane_ as my typical example in my "History of the Aesopic Fable," and can only give here a rough summary of the results I there arrived at concerning the fable, merely premising that these results are at present no more than hypotheses.

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

Of partic - ular interest is the Aesopic fable of the belly and the members (Aesopica, ed.B. E. Perry, Urbana, Ill. [1952],

Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID G. HALE 1968

In a somewhat elaborate discussion [Footnote: "History of the Aesopic Fable," the introductory volume to my edition of Caxton's

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

"History of the Aesopic Fable," which forms the introductory volume to my edition of Caxton's _Esope_ (London, D. Nutt, "Bibliothèque de

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

"The oldest tale we found was an Aesopic fable that dated from about the sixth century BC, so the last common ancestor of all these tales certainly predated this.

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