A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

It appears that fable was not recognised as a distinct literary genre in antiquity although it did exist in a recognisable form.

Spanning from Sumer to the present day few literary genres show greater continuity throughout their history than the fable. Historical evidence reaching as far

Honoring the path of a slave, this dramatic picture-book biography and concise anthology of Aesop's most child-friendly fables tells how a child born into slave

In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance cultu