Aesop's Fables - Volume I

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

Author:

Aesop

Publisher:

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date:

May 31, 2011

Number of pages:

44 pages

Binding:

Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10:

1461066840

ISBN-13:

9781461066842