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Why did the Greeks tell fables?

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because they like to fake everything in life in general haha

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How are fables different myths?

:Fables are lessens with moral values while myths tell stories of gods and heros.


Why is aesop important?

Aesop is important because he wrote great fables.


What is the best fable story?

One of the best fables is The Ant and the Grasshopper. Fables are great stories to tell children in order to teach them a lesson.


Before Herodotus how did Greeks tell their past?

The Greeks told myths to tell stories of the past or they used ledgends


Why did the geeks tell fables?

To teach people lessons or give advice on how to live.


Whose were the fables?

The fables are called 'The Aesop Fables'. A weird name Aesop.


What is the importance of fables?

Fables are stories that have been passed down through generations that revolve around a moral, so the importance is essentially enforcing a moral in a 'fun' way, when you tell a child an interesting story that is based on a moral, they are bound to remember it.


Were the concluding one-line 'morals' of Aesop's Fables written by the same author as the fables themselves?

Perhaps not. The Greeks were no strangers to rhetorical devices and such subtle references would not be invisible to them. However you have asked a question where the answer is so lost to a very obscure past it is impossible to verify.


Where was the first flying unicorn found?

Only in fables - there is no evidence that there has ever been a flying unicorn. Greeks had myths of flying horses, although there were not generally depicted with horns.


Why did the Greeks and other ancient people's devoloped myths and fables?

It was their religion. They used it the same way that we use ours: to define those things which cannot be defined or explained.


Are fables shorter than legends?

Yes they are. Because fables are fiction stories only that have talking animals as their characters while legends are stories that attempt to tell the origin of a particular subject believed to have one.


Are aesp fables and fables the same?

A fable is a type of story. Aesop's fables are the fables invented by the famed fabalist Aesop.