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Aesop

Aesop was an ancient Greek story teller who invented moral stories using animals as the main protagonists. Various legends have grown up around the man, and many stories are attributed to his story techniques.

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What is the genre of aesops fables?

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The genre is mostly fantasy with all the talking animals.

Why are Aesop's fables still popular?

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Because they were parables, an analogy.It wasnt so much the story but the meaning, the moral lesson behind it.

Why did Aesop use animals instead of humans in fables?

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Fables, unlike parables, feature animals, plants and other non-human characters that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities) to illustrate the lessons (morals) of the stories.

Aesop chose fables for his lessons because listeners of his stories could enjoy and learn from them without seeing themselves or someone else they knew in the different characters. It is a non threatening strategy, a way of keeping the reader interested without making them put up any barriers.

People in Aesop's time in ancient Greece lived more closely with nature than we do today. They understood nature's ways and that wolves, as well as people, ate sheep to survive, for example, so it was less scary to use the wolf in the story of "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" than to make it a story of a bad person being deceitful. It still allowed the moral to be taught without triggering undue fears in the process. Animals were thought to be lesser (utilitarian, food sources) in the society's hierarchy in Aesop's time so he could use them as an example to show ignorance or silliness without being directly degrading to people. These sides of being human and making mistakes could be suggested through an animal's character without being as insulting as it might be to someone who identified with the position in which the character was found.

What is the moral of the the mice in council in aesops fable?

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MORAL: Little friends may prove great friends.
when ever you promise someone something, always remember to keep that promise.

Can you have children in Fable?

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make a villager love you then buy a ring. (try to buy the eternal love ring) marry him/her (you gotta have a house) then go to the house and press "A" on the poster thing that's near the door (the door to your house) and press "Make this home martial home" and then use the expression named "Come To My Place" and he/she will follow you. after that go to a bed and press "A" near the bed and choose "Unprotected ***"

and now you have a kid. =)

Who is famous for his fables?

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Aesop is the author of esophagi fables.

Did aesop go to school?

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Aesop was a slave in the 500's B.C. He was later freed and went on to teach morals and advice through his imaginative fables. Unfortunately, he was wrongly accused of stealing a gold or silver cup from the Temple of Delphi. He was then executed. Overall, he was not educated but a very important man.

What are three great accomplishments Aesop?

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He was executed for the stories he passed down

Why did scholars doubt the existence of writers like homer and aesop?

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Because there isn't enough evidence in which these authors exist.

Why was Aesop free from slavery?

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He was set free because of his skill at story telling.

Why are fables popular?

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Who inspired Aesop to write his fables?

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No Aesop was illiterate. All his fable were first an oral tradition then somebody wrote them down.

What are fables used for?

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Where can Aesop Fables be found online?

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The Aesop Fables can be found online on the official website of Aesop Fables. There is a huge selection of alphabetically arranged fables on the Aesop Fables website.

Did aesop have children or a wife?

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Aesop had a wife named Rhodope, but it is unknown if they had children because soon after they married, Rhodope was taken to Egypt as a slave.

Did aesop die?

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round about 560BC, unless you know of another one.

What does Aesop have to do with fables?

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Aesop has made over 600 fables and most of his fables were made up of animals with charictoristics of humans. The fables had morals to them. (such as don't try the imposible). He was a slave in Greece lived there and died at the age of 60.

Which of Aesop's fables are most famous?

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I belive that the Boy who cried wolf is the known tale by Aesop.

What are the differences in folk tale aesop fable and fairy tale?

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Folk tales are traditional tales told in all pre-industrial societies. Folk tales may be stories of traditional heroes (Havelok, Roland, Robin Hood) or of semi-mythical creatures (elves, tokoloshe, djinn). The people who tell such stories do not particularly think of the stories as fictional: in many cases they actually believe the tales of Robin Hood, and that brownies sour milk left out at night, though sometimes they 'keep an open mind' on such matters.

Fables are one step away from such folk gullibility. Fables are often based on folk-tales, but people tell a fable because it has a moral. Someone who tells the story of the Fox and the Grapes does not believe that any fox can really talk - but they recognise that there is a lesson in the story which you can appreciate even though the events are not literally true. (Aesop was a famous author / collector of fables - but there have been many others, including Phaedrus, La Fontaine, and Terry Jones of Monty Python).

A fairy tale is a deliberately made-up story. The people who write fairy tales do not believe fairies really exist, nor do they have a moral to convey - they simply want to write a pretty story about fairies. Fairy tales are much more modern than either folk tales or fables - fairy tales really only begin around the Eighteenth Century (before that people weren't sufficiently sure that fairies were not real).

Sino si Aesop bakit siya tinaguriang ama ng sinaunang pabula?

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dahil siya ang ama ng wika. at mahigit na 200 ang nagawa na niya na pabula

What type of stories was Aesop famosfor?

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Aesop wrote many, many fables. These were moral stories that featured animal characters. Some examples include 'Country Mouse and City Mouse,' 'The Tortoise and the Hare,' and 'The Fox and the Crow.'