The Fables of Aesop

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Here we go: I used to read about Aesop’s Fables they’re well known.

I had a look into what is currently available as if I was going to do an evening class for an audience.

PLANUDES AND THE FABLE OF AESOP

https://www.themorgan.org/morganmobile/telling-fragments/aesop

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2807

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)

I write in Esop’s style, not in his name,

And for the most part I the subject claim.

Tho' some brief portion Esop might indite,

The more I from my own invention write,

The style is ancient but the matter’s new.^[71]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b-cIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

A Poetical Version of the Fables of Phaedrus: Together with an Appendix Containing Four Fables by Gudius

Phaedrus, Frederick Toller

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G_dfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA660&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)

… a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Nothing is recorded of his life except for what can be inferred from his poems, and there was little mention of his work during late antiquity.

It was not until the discovery of a few imperfect manuscripts during and following the Renaissance that his importance emerged, both as an author and in the transmission of the fables.

A collection of Aesopic fables compiled by Demetrius of Phalerum is likely to have been Phaedrus's main source.^[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum

His numerous writings, the greater part of which he probably composed during his residence in Egypt,^[21] embraced a wide range of subjects, and the list of them given by Diogenes Laërtius^[22] shows that he was a man of the most extensive acquirements.

These works, which were partly historical, partly political, partly philosophical (e.g. Aisopeia, a collection of Aesopic Fables), and partly poetical, have all perished.

And that would be my first evening’s presentation.

I’d hand out a sheet or send a link to my audience and give them a week to look at what I presented. Then I would continue. You gotta have faith as Joe says:

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