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The Aesop for Children

Name: The Aesop for Children
ISBN: 9781625583383

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Aesop

Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · January 3, 2013

Reading lane: Country & Ethnic Folktales

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE.

Folktale Retellings Greek & Roman Myths Country & Ethnic Folktales short story

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Why This Clicks

Tales in Transit

Aesop’s fables sit within a much older, less settled history of shared storytelling.

Come here for

The curious overlap between Greek and Indian tale traditions
A question of influence that may have traveled both ways

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Ancient stories with tangled cultural roots

Book Details

Authors: Aesop
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: January 3, 2013
Format: Ebook
Theme: Country & Ethnic Folktales · Folktale Retellings
Reading lane: Country & Ethnic Folktales

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Asian Myths & Legends
Greek & Roman Myths

About This Book

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition, as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra, share about a dozen tales in common, although often widely differing in detail. There is therefore some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other way, or if the influence...

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