Aesop's Fables (26 page)
Authors: Aesop,Arthur Rackham,V. S. Vernon Jones,D. L. Ashliman
University of Southern Mississippi.
Description of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.
This collection is especially strong in its holdings of Aesop and other fabulists (
http://www.lib.usm.edu/-degrum/html/coflectionhl/ch-fables.shtml
).
Description of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.
This collection is especially strong in its holdings of Aesop and other fabulists (
http://www.lib.usm.edu/-degrum/html/coflectionhl/ch-fables.shtml
).
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A fuller bleached and thickened woolen cloth through a boiling and pounding process.
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The word “corn” designates any type of grain.
3
In some versions the slave is known by the name Androcles.
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A common black and gray bird related to the crow.
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The significance here is that a lowly bramble would dare to interject himself into a dispute between two noble fruit trees.
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The ancient storyteller apparently did not know that dolphins are air-breathing mammals.
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A mythical flower that never fades.
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This belief is the origin of the expression “swan song.”
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Reminiscent of Pandora’s box in Greek mythology.
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In the original Greek text it was the heart that was stolen, which in antiquity was believed to be the seat of intelligence.
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Where the recaptured slave will be forced to labor.
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A small hawk.
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