AEsop's Fables In Rhyme Audiobook

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Title : AEsop's Fables In Rhyme
Author : Aesop (Αἴσωπος)
Written : 600 - 570 BCE
Place of Origin : Ancient Greece
Original Media type : Papyrus, Manuscripts
Original Language : Ancient Greek
Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Collection, Comedy, Fable, Fairytale, Poetry, Short Story
Translator : Jefferys Taylor (1792 - 1853), Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
Reader : Noel Badrian, Denny Sayers
Editor : AudioBooks Dimension

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Æsop's Fables In Rhyme Audiobook Video Chapter Time Stamps :

00:00:00    THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
00:02:08    THE CROW AND THE PITCHER
00:03:36    THE HONEST WOODMAN
00:07:22    THE WOLF AND THE CRANE
00:09:18    THE DOG OF REFLECTION
00:10:36    THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
00:12:30    THE LION AND THE MOUSE
00:14:37    THE FOX AND THE CRANE
00:17:07    THE COCK AND THE JEWEL
00:18:21    THE EAGLE AND THE CROW
00:19:25    THE COMPLIANT FARMER
00:21:52    THE FOX AND THE GOAT
00:22:51    THE TORTOISE
00:24:42    THE TRAVELLERS AND BEAR
00:26:00    THE FROGS AND THE BULL
00:27:20    THE COUNCIL OF MICE
00:29:09    THE BEASTS IN PARTNERSHIP
00:31:37    THE OAK AND THE REED
00:33:37    THE FOX AND THE LION
00:34:34    THE FROGS
00:37:37    THE TWO VESSELS
00:38:43    THE BEAR AND THE HERMIT
00:40:35    THE CLOWN PRAYING TO HERCULES
00:43:35    THE LION AND THE ASS
00:45:04    THE DOG INVITED TO DINNER
00:47:59    THE MOUSE AND THE WEASEL
00:49:08    THE GRAPES ARE SOUR
00:49:53    THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN
00:51:50    THE MAN WHO HAD TRAVELLED
00:53:26    THE DOG AND THE WOLF
00:56:06    THE HERDSMAN
00:57:47    THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
00:58:53    THE HORSE AND THE ASS
01:00:22    THE BULL AND THE GNAT
01:01:24    THE MAN AND THE LION
01:02:46    THE TWO FROGS
01:03:56    THE TRAVELLER AND THE SATYR
01:06:44    THE MOUTH AND THE LIMBS
01:09:19    THE CONCEITED CUR
01:10:21    THE YOUNG MOUSE
01:12:35    THE TOAD AND THE FLY
01:16:24    THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES
01:19:50    THE TWO CATS
01:22:01    THE FOX AND THE HEN
01:23:48    THE JEALOUS ASS
01:26:25    THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MICE
01:29:44    THE CAT AND THE FOX
01:31:16    THE WASP AND THE SNAIL
01:33:14    THE FOX AND THE CROW
01:36:08    DR. WOLF
01:38:41    THE COUNCIL OF WAR
01:43:03    THE LAME MAN AND THE BLIND
01:44:12    THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE ACORN
01:45:32    THE MILKMAID
01:48:57    THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PURSE
01:50:32    MERCURY AND THE SCULPTOR
01:52:23    THE CHAMELEON
01:54:27    THE SOLAR PHENOMENON
01:57:22    THE WIND & THE SUN
01:57:55    THE FRIGHTENED LION
01:58:22    THE MARRIED MOUSE
01:58:52    THE LAZY HOUSEMAIDS
01:59:20    THE SNAKE & THE FILE
01:59:55    THE DOG IN THE MANGER
02:00:25    HORSE AND MAN
02:00:57    THE ASS & THE ENEMY
02:01:29    THE FOX & THE MOSQUITOES
02:02:03    THE MISER & HIS GOLD
02:02:32    THE GOLDEN EGGS
02:03:03    THE FIR & THE BRAMBLE
02:03:34    THE TREES & THE WOODMAN
02:04:04    THE HART & THE VINE
02:04:31    THE MAN & THE SNAKE
02:04:59    THE FOX & THE MASK
02:05:27    THE VAIN JACKDAW
02:05:58    THE PEACOCK’S COMPLAINT
02:06:21    THE TWO CRABS
02:06:45    BROTHER & SISTER
02:07:13    THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL
02:07:41    THE BLIND DOE
02:08:05    THE GEESE & THE CRANES
02:08:37    THE TRUMPETER TAKEN PRISONER
02:09:03    NEITHER BEAST NOR BIRD
02:09:31    THE STAG IN THE OX STALL
02:09:58    THE DEER & THE LION
02:10:24    THE LION IN LOVE
02:10:52    THE CAT AND VENUS
02:11:19    THE HARES AND THE FROGS
02:11:48    PORCUPINE, SNAKE, & COMPANY
02:12:18    THE BEAR & THE BEES
02:12:46    THE BUNDLE OF STICKS
02:13:18    THE FARMER’S TREASURE
02:13:50    THE COCK, THE ASS & THE LION
02:14:20    FORTUNE AND THE BOY
02:14:54    THE FISHERMAN & THE FISH
02:15:21    THE ASS & THE SICK LION

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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

The fables originally belonged to oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors.

Modern versions of Æsop go back no further than 480 CE. In their earliest use they are related to the folklore current among all primitive peoples. This folklore had risen in Greece to the rank of literary form a thousand years before the above-mentioned revival in Germany, France, and England. As the creation of Æsop it was the answer to a need for trenchant, but veiled, characterization of men and measures in the dangerous times of the Tyrants. In mirth-provoking utterances, quite apart from personal criticism, things could be intimated with all the force of specific judgments, yet in such veiled form that to resent them was tacit confession that they applied. Later on, when free speech became safer, the grammarians and rhetoricians raised these clever, pithy stories to the literary form they have since maintained.

There is for Æsop’s Fables no authorized original version. Always, it appears, they were subject to interpolations and special versions. They took on metrical forms in Latin, and in later times in French. It is the particular distinction of a real fable that it bears this amplification, yet can at any time and from any true version shake off the accessories of particular phrasing and in its bare facts meet all the requirements of a literary and artistic whole. It is this static character which has made the fable of such value to language students. Even little children, comparing different versions, learn to distinguish the raw material of a real story from its varying renderings. Subjoined is an account of Æsop, called the Inventor and Father of Fable in its present form.

The life of Æsop, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, is involved in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiæum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being his birthplace. Although the honor thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C. and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned by two masters in succession, Xanthus and Jadmon, both inhabitants of Samos, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo, Menippus, and Epictetus in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown. In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he traveled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men. At the court of Crœsus he met with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers that Crœsus applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb—μαλλον ὁ Φρὑξ, “The Phrygian has spoken better than all.”

On the invitation of Crœsus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of state. In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different petty republics of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavoring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their rulers. One of these missions, undertaken at the command of Crœsus, was the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so indignant at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money and sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. But the great fabulist did not lack posthumous honors, for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors. These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop.

Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. In addition, there have been reinterpretations of the meaning of fables and changes in emphasis over time. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today.

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Persons mentioned in AEsop's Fables In Rhyme :

1. Aesop (Αἴσωπος) : a legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Aesop was mentioned in many stories.
2. Cadmus (Κάδμος) : the legendary Greek hero and founder of Boeotian Thebes. He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracle. Cadmus was mentioned in 'The Toad and the Fly'.
3. Cicero : a stupid and lazy ancient Roman man.
4. Copernicus : refer to Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. He was mentioned in 'The Solar Phenomenon'.
5. Descartes : refer to René Descartes (1596 – 1650), a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. He was mentioned in 'The Solar Phenomenon'.
6. Diomedes (Διομήδης) : the son of Ares and Cyrene. He lived on the shores of the Black Sea ruling the warlike tribe of Bistones. He is known for his man-eating horses, which Heracles stole in order to complete the eighth of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the process. Diomedes was mentioned in 'The Clown Praying to Hercules'.
7. Entick : refer to John Entick (c.1703 – 1773), an English schoolmaster and author. He was mentioned in 'The Man Who Had Travelled'.
8. Halley : refer to Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742), an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Halley catalogued the southern celestial hemisphere and recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. He realised that a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the distances between Earth, Venus, and the Sun. Halley was mentioned in 'The Solar Phenomenon'.
9. Jack : a face in the crowd, mentioned in ‘The Chameleon’.
10. John, Edward and Dick : the three sons of the master of the ass in ‘The Jealous Ass’.
11. Johnson : : refer to Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was mentioned in ‘The Man Who Had Travelled’.
12. Ned : the brother of the milkmaid, mentioned in ‘The Milkmaid’.
13. Newton : refer to Sir Isaac Newton FRS (1642 – 1726), an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of relativity. Newton was mentioned in 'The Solar Phenomenon'.
14. Phaedrus : an ancient Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of the philosopher Socrates, mentioned in ‘The Frogs’.
15. Saint Peter : one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. Saint Peter was mentioned in 'The Man Who Had Travelled'.
16. Sheridan : refer to Thomas Sheridan (1719 – 1788), an Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement, and was the godson of Jonathan Swift. He was mentioned in ‘The Man Who Had Travelled’.
17. Thales (Θαλῆς) : refer to Thales of Miletus (626 – 548 BCE), an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece. Thales was an astronomer who reportedly predicted the weather and a solar eclipse. The discovery of the position of the constellation Ursa Major is also attributed to Thales, as well as the timings of the solstices and equinoxes. Thales was mentioned in 'The Solar Phenomenon'.

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Deities mentioned in AEsop's Fables In Rhyme :

1. Folly : refer to Ate (Ἄτη), the goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. She also led both gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering. She was mentioned in ‘Fortune and the Boy’.
2. Fortune / Fortuna : the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion. She was mentioned in 'Fortune and the Boy'.
3. Hercules : the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, mentioned in ‘The Clown Praying to Hercules’.
4. Juno : an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state, and a goddess of love and marriage. A daughter of Saturn and Ops, she was the sister and wife of Jupiter and the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Lucina and Juventas. Juno was mentioned in 'Mercury and the Sculptor', ‘The Peacock Complaint’.
5. Jupiter : the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology, mentioned in 'The Frogs'.
6. Mars : the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He is the son of Jupiter and Juno, and was pre-eminent among the Roman army's military gods. Mars was mentioned in 'Mercury and the Sculptor'.
7. Mercury : a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld and the "messenger of the gods". Mercury was mentioned in 'Mercury and the Sculptor'.
8. Minerva : the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She is also a goddess of warfare, though with a focus on strategic warfare, rather than the violence of gods such as Mars. Minerva was mentioned in 'Mercury and the Sculptor'.
9. Venus : a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, She was mentioned in ‘The Cat and Venus’.

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Other Beings mentioned in AEsop's Fables In Rhyme :

1. Cerberus (Κερβερος) : a gigantic multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. He was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and was usually described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from his body. Cerberus was mentioned in 'The Clown Praying to Hercules'.
2. Elf : a humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore, mentioned in ‘The Honest Woodman’.
3. Geryon (Γηρυων) : a three-bodied, four-winged giant who lived on the island of Erytheia in the westernmost reach of the earth-encircling river Oceanus. He possessed a fabulous herd of cattle whose coats were stained red by the light of the sunset. Geryon was mentioned in 'The Clown Praying to Hercules'.
4. Hydra (ὕδρα) : a gigantic, nine-headed water-serpent, which haunted the swamps of Lerna. Hydra was mentioned in ‘The Clown Praying to Hercules’.
5. Reynard : an anthropomorphic red fox, trickster figure, mentioned in many stories.
6. Sprite : a supernatural entity in European mythology. They are often depicted as fairy-like creatures or as an ethereal entity, mentioned in ‘The Honest Woodman’.

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Places mentioned in AEsop's Fables In Rhyme :

1. Colossus (Κολοσσὸς) : a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BCE. The Colossus was mentioned in 'The Man Who Had Travelled'.
2. Dome of St. Peter : the church buildings that stood, from the 4th to 16th centuries, where St. Peter's Basilica stands today in Vatican City. It was over 350 feet long, and had a gabled roof which was timbered on the interior which stood at over 100 feet at the center. The dome of Saint Peter was mentioned in 'The Man Who Had Travelled'.
3. Rhodes (Ρόδος) : the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Rhodes was famous for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Rhodes was mentioned in 'The Man Who Had Travelled'.
4. Rome : the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, mentioned in ‘The Man Who Had Travelled’.
5. Tusculum : a Roman city on Tuscolo hill, in the Latium region, famous for many great luxurious patrician country villas sites closed to the city. Tusculum was mentioned in ‘The Clown Praying to Hercules’.
6. Yorkshire : a county in Northern England. It was mentioned in 'The Town and Country Mice'.

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Terms mentioned in AEsop's Fables In Rhyme :

1. Amazons (Ἀμαζόνες) : a group of female warriors and hunters who were known for their physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat. The Amazons were mentioned in ‘The Clown Praying to Hercules’.
2. Cheshire cheese : a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties: Denbighshire and Flintshire in Wales, and Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. It was mentioned in ‘The Two Cats’.
3. Christian : a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
4. Duck and drake : related to stone skipping or stone skimming activities, both refer to the art of throwing a flat stone across the water in such a way (usually sidearm) that it bounces off the surface. It was mentioned in ‘The Boys and the Frogs’.
5. Faculæ : a bright spot on the surface of a planet or a star. It was mentioned in ‘The Solar Phenomenon’.
6. Guinea : a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold. It was mentioned in 'The Milkmaid'.
7. Maculæ : an unusually dark areas on the surface of a planet or moon. It was mentioned in ‘The Solar Phenomenon’.
8. Pence : a penny or a unit of currency in various countries. Borrowed from the Carolingian denarius, it is usually the smallest denomination within a currency system. At present, it is the formal name of the British penny. Pench was mentioned in 'The Milkmaid'.
9. Pound : the name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The term was adopted in England from the weight of silver used to make 240 pennies, and eventually spread to British colonies all over the world. While silver pennies were produced seven centuries earlier, the first pound coin was minted under Henry VII in 1489. Pound was mentioned in ‘The Milkmaid’.
10. Roman : a citizen of ancient Rome, mentioned in ‘The Clown Praying to Hercules’.
11. Shilling : a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s. It was mentioned in ‘The Milkmaid’.

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