[Read more…] about The Nightingale and The SwallowTo some, solitude brings more comfort than crowds. Old wounds often ache in familiar places.
The Slave Girl and Aphrodite
[Read more…] about The Slave Girl and AphroditeThose who praise what is ugly as if it were lovely lose both good judgment and the gods’ favor.
Little Fish Escape the Net
[Read more…] about Little Fish Escape the NetThe humble often escape dangers that the mighty cannot avoid.
Mercury’s Wagon and The Arabs
[Read more…] about Mercury’s Wagon and The ArabsDeceit spreads where it is welcomed.
Guard your heart, and choose truth over trickery.
E-Book Links
Some ask where the original files for the books used to create this collection are located. This post contains links to those files. The request usually comes in the form of a question about using the text and/or illustrations on this site in some other collection.
[Read more…] about E-Book LinksPerry Index
Sources to fables are many and translations differ for the same fable in these different sources. In an attempt to make some sense of this Ben Edwin Perry published a survey of Greek and Latin fables in the Aesopic tradition in his Aesopica, published in 1952. That survey was published in Latin and Greek to be consistent with the original fable collections but an English version of the index to the survey was published as an appendix to the Loeb Classical Library Babrius and Phaedrus Fables which was translated and edited by Perry. The index numbers found listed below and throughout this site are consistent with the Perry survey.
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