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Jessica
Evershed
Registered User
(5/9/03 9:00 am)
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aesop's fables
I wondered if anyone had any ideas or information about Aesop, and how his fables fit into the whole folklore thing.
Aesop lived in the 6th Century BC, and apparently none of his fables were actually written down during his lifetime, but are all subsequent interpretations of them. There seem to be around 600 tales that I have found references to. I think they have gradually been added to over the centuries from external sources, and the list has grown and grown.
does anyone know anything about which ones are the earliest, or know of any interesting modern interpretations of them?
thanks
Jessica
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/9/03 1:06 pm)
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Hope this helps
Look for a copy of this:
Call # PA3855.E5 C3 1976
Title The history and fables of Aesop. / Translated and printed by William Caxton, 1484. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, with an introd. by Edward Hodnett
Imprint London : Scolar Press, 1976
Might get you started. This one is at the Huntington Library in California. It does not generally lend out books to the public, but it is often a good place to go to see what is "out there". The earliest copies they had of the fables dates from around 1480, so the Caxton is probably contemporary.
Jess
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/9/03 1:16 pm)
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Just curious
I don't know anything about her, but Laura Gibbs at University of Oklahoma has a new translation of Aesop's out published by Oxford Classics. It appears to be annotated and provides additional information on-line. The Caxton are available on this same website aesopica.net. Note, they are in Middle English. There are also various other versions on this webpage.
Jess
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/9/03 1:21 pm)
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Another possible source
S.398.2
Ae88aj
1966
Aesop. The Fables of Aesop, Selected, Told Anew, and Their History Traced by Joseph Jacobs. New York: Schocken Books, 1966. (Illus. by Richard Heighway.)
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Jessica
Evershed
Registered User
(5/10/03 3:05 am)
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Aesop
Thanks for the advice, am looking into all.
The aesopica.net site seems to be down at the moment, but hopefully temporarily
Jessica
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/10/03 10:06 am)
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For Caxton
Try this:
liaisons.ou.edu/~lgibbs/a.../index.htm
Jess
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