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Customer Review: NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
A CLASSIC WORK ON HUMAN NATURE. IT WAS WRITTEN 2000 YEARS AGO BUT THE STORIES APPLY TO PEOPLE ALIVE TODAY. TIMELESS. VALUABLE. SHORT AND SWEET.
RANKS UP THERE WITH "THE NAKED APE" AND ISSAC B SINGER AS MUST READS IF YOU ARE TO UNDERSTAND HUMANS...
Customer Review: No TOC
I just downloaded this only to find that the book has no index to link to the various stories. So unless your willing to page your way around the book or create your own bookmarks, I'd suggest you look for another version of this.
Customer Review: Great compliation of Aesop's Fables
Although, I haven't finish reading all of the fables, however, the ones that I have read are enobling for educators and any serious literature reader. I reccomend the Oxford classic of Asop's Fables for anyone who love reading great literature.
Customer Review: Animals as Human Nature.
We may never really know the true identity of Aesop the Man. But his legacy lives on in these fables,
the morals of which can still find relevance in today's society.
For those of you, whom are easily offended some of the fables bring up racial differences that may upset you.
In particular fable 361:~ The Black man in the river, but then you would be merely taking things out of context of the time in which it was written.
I found fable 136:~ The man and his daughter particularly sad and unpleasant, but it does remind you of the bad side of Human Nature.
These fables express what being Human is all about, the bad and the good.
I never tire of re-reading this book, and I think you won't either.
Customer Review: Sad, sad , sad!
It is rather sad that someone who sets herself up as being scholarly cannot accurately interpret the meaning of those simple fables. For example, the tale of 'Zeus and the Tortoise' #508 has no connection whatsoever to 'home is best' but, more accurately, that 'there is no God but there is Mammon' or alternatively, 'he who weilds the sword never wears the crown'! There is a profound social message to learn from all Aesop's fables but regretfully many do not originate from his pen but accreted around his tales with the passing of time.
Product Description
The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf?
This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.
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