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• Aesop's Fables — or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620 ndash;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 anthropomorphic… …   Wikipedia

• Fables —    by Marie de France (ca. 1160–1215)    Although currently less popular than her LAIS, particularly her well known LANVAL, the Fables of MARIE DE FRANCE were her best known work in the Middle Ages, with some 25 extant manuscripts dating from the …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Aesop among the Jews — Aesop among the JewsIndia the Probable SourceResearch has shown an intimate relation between the fables associated with the name of Æsop and the jatakas , or birth stories of the Buddha. Sakyamuni is represented in the jatakas as recording the… …   Wikipedia

• Fables and Parables — TOCright Fables and Parables ( Bajki i przypowieści , 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki, is a noted work in a long international tradition of fable writing that reaches back to antiquity. Emulating the fables of the ancient Greek Aesop, the Macedonian… …   Wikipedia

• TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATORS — The earliest Jewish translations, apart from possible examples in the Bible, are the Greek version of the Pentateuch and, later, other books of the Bible, which were made to fill a need in the Greek speaking Jewish community of Alexandria and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs — is one of many fables attributed to Aesop, and one that can be found in a compilation of his works cited and sourced at the bottom of this article. It is very popular, as are many of his fables, which also include The Fox and the Grapes, The Boy… …   Wikipedia