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Aesop and Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Aesop (ē´səp, ē´sŏp), legendary Greek fabulist. According to Herodotus, he was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th cent. BC and eventually was freed by his master. Other accounts associate him with many wild adventures and connect him with such rulers as Solon and Croesus. The fables called Aesop's fables were preserved principally through Babrius, Phaedrus, Planudes Maximus, and La Fontaine's verse translations. The most famous of these fables include "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." See fable.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
Cipion, Berganza, and the Aesopic Tradition
Carranza, Paul. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2003
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Carranza, Paul. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2003
The Body Politic: Anatomy of a Metaphor
Harvey, A. D. Contemporary Review, Vol. 275, No. 1603, August 1999
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Harvey, A. D. Contemporary Review, Vol. 275, No. 1603, August 1999