Length2h 46m
About this audiobook
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have 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 the 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 later 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.
On the arrival of printing, collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted throughout the world.
This collection consists of 214 Aesop's fables.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (158.4K)
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GenreChildren's Literature, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byMichael Goodrick
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 6, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Aesop's Fables - Intro
26The Slave And The Lion
2The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs
27The Flea And The Man
3The Cat And The Mice
28The Blind Man And The Cub
4The Mischevious Dog
29The Boy And The Snails
5The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller
30The Apes And The Two Travellers
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6The Mice In Council
31The Ass And His Burdens
7The Bat And The Weasels
32The Shepherd's Boy And The Wolf
8The Dog And The Sow
33The Fox And The Goat
9The Horse And The Groom
34The Fisherman And The Sprat
10The Wolf And The Lamb
35The Boasting Traveller
11The Peacock And The Crane
36The Crab And His Mother
12The Cat And The Birds
37The Ass And His Shadow
13The Old Woman And The Doctor
38The Farmer And His Sons
14Mercury And The Woodman
39The Dog And The Cook
15The Ass, The Fox, And The Lion
40The Monkey As King
16The Lion And The Mouse
41The Farmer And The Fortune
17The North Wind And The Sun
42Jupiter And The Monkey
18The Milkmaid And Her Pail
43Father And Sons
19The Dolphins, The Whales, And The Sprat
44The Lamp
20The Fox And The Monkey
45The She-Goats And Their Beards
21The Ass And The Lap-Dog
46The Old Lion
22The Frog's Complaint Against The Sun
47The Boy Bathing
23The Dog, The Cock, And The Fox
48The Swollen Fox
24The Gnat And The Bull
49The Mouse, The Frog, And The Hawk
25The Bear And The Travellers
50The Boy And The Nettles
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