| Aesop's Fables - Volume I Contributor(s): Aesop (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461066840 ISBN-13: 9781461066842 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2011 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Antiques & Collectibles |
| Physical Information: 0.09" H x 7.01" W x 10" (0.21 lbs) 44 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Aesop's Fables - Volume I Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st century AD philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ... 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 |