Aesop

Aesop

Aesop (620-560 BC),

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philosopher

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Krylov

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La Fontaine

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Four fables of the world

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He may have been Ethiopian, but he did

Samos Island

He was a slave of the ademon family, and was sold many times, but because of his knowledge and intelligence, he was finally free.

Aesop travels around the world, telling people about his philosophical life

fable story

He was later killed by the Delphi.

At the end of the 5th century BC, the name Aesop was well known to the ancient Greeks. At that time, all the ancient Greek fables belonged to his name, and his fables were deeply loved by the ancient Greek people. Extant《

Aesop's Fables

》The original name is the collection of aesophus fables

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The fables collected by monk pranudes are collected in the form of poetry or prose. As well as the ancient Greek fables and ancient Roman fables that people have found in succession, they are all under Aesop's name.

Life of the characters

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) was a wise fable writer in ancient Greece in the 6th century BC. He lived in Asia Minor. Frigians.

According to Herodotus, he used to be a slave of the yadmont family on Samos Island, but was later killed by the Delphi people. After his death, the plague spread in Delphi, and the Delphi people paid for his life, which was taken by the grandson of the same name of old ademon.

It is said that after he was given his freedom, he often went to the court of cleuthus, king of Lydia. In addition, it is also said that during the reign of pisitratus, he visited Athens and told the Athenians the fable "request the frog of the king" to dissuade them from replacing pisitratus with others.

In the manuscript of Aesop's biography, which was discovered in the 13th century, he was depicted as ugly, and many stories about him came out of this biography.

At the end of the 5th century BC, the name Aesop was well known to the Greeks, and Greek fables began to belong to him. Demetrios (345-283 BC) wrote the first collection of Greek fables. In the first and second centuries, Fidelius and bablius wrote two poetic Aesop's fables in Latin and Greek respectively. The common Aesop's fables is compiled according to the fables collected by Byzantine monk pranudes and the ancient Greek fables found later.

Aesop's fables are mostly animal stories. Some of them (such as wolf and lamb, lion and wild donkey, etc.) use vicious animals such as jackals and lions to compare the power of the world, expose their tyranny, cruelty, cruelty and weakness, and reflect the thoughts and feelings of the common people or slaves. Tortoise and rabbit, shepherd and wild goat, etc. summarize people's life experience and teach people how to deal with them The truth of life.

Aesop's fables are short, concise and vivid. Together with Lafontaine of France, Lessing of Germany and Krylov of Russia, they are known as the four greatest Allegories in the world.

Jesuit missionaries introduced Aesop's fables to China in the Ming Dynasty. Kuangyi, an oral version of ginige, was published in 1625, with 22 fables; yishimeng Yin, with 81 fables, was published in 1840. The extant Aesop's fable is a story handed down from ancient Greece and Rome, which is sorted out by later generations and belongs to Aesop.

Everyone didn't like Aesop because he was ugly when he was a child. But his mother likes to tell him stories. In addition, when he grew up and worked in the fields, most of the interesting things he saw were made into wonderful stories by him. His stories are oral, so his memory is extraordinary.

Aesop was born in Greece about 620 BC, more than 2600 years ago. Aesop was a mute in his childhood. He could only make strange sounds and use gestures to express his meaning. In addition, he was short and ugly, and his neighbors thought he was a madman.

But his mother loved him very much and often told him stories; his uncle hated the short and ugly nephew and often forced him to do the hardest work in the field. After his mother's death, Aesop followed the old man who had taken care of him and left home to roam around, so he learned many stories about birds, insects and animals. They lived happily together for many years.

Later, Aesop was sold by the shepherd, and from then on Aesop became a slave. One day, Aesop had a dream that fortune would smile at him kindly and put his finger into his mouth to relax his tongue. When he woke up, he was overjoyed to find that he could speak.

We all like to hear Aesop tell stories, and we all admire his extraordinary intelligence. Aesop used to save his friends and masters from their troubles by his wit; he used his wit to avoid the enemy's harm and lift the shackles of slaves. It is said that Aesop was killed by the Delphi people for offending them, and he died with his eyes closed.

personal works

Fox and goat in the well

Fox and grape

The Vain Jackdaw

Good and evil

Ants and dung beetle

Two pockets

Hawk and fox

Farmer and snake

Fisherman with flute

Fly and honey

Dog with meat in its mouth

Wolf and lamb

Voles and house mice

The lion and the repaying mouse

Bull and frog

The tortoise and the rabbit race

The lying Shepherd

Fox and woodcutter

The lion and the mosquito

Hercules and the God of wealth

The fox with a broken tail

Cock and jade

Farmer and Eagle

Oak and Zeus

Anecdotes and allusions

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Aesop, the ancient Greek fable writer, was a slave. One day, Aesop's master was going to take a bath in the bathroom. He called Aesop and said, "go to the public bathroom and see if there are many people taking a bath today."

Aesop went to the bathroom door and saw a lot of people walking into the bathroom. Just as he was about to turn back to tell the master, he suddenly found a stone in the bathroom door, which was in the way. He didn't know who put it there. People who go in and out of the bathroom will trip over this stone if they are not careful. But the stumbling man always cursed the man who put the stone here, and then got up and walked away. No one ever started to move the stone away.

As Aesop stood there, laughing in his heart, he suddenly saw another man trip over a stone. That person also scolded: "which damned fool put the stone here!"

When the man got up, he began to move the stone away and then went into the bathroom.

Aesop went back to the master and said, "there's only one person in the bathroom today."

The host was overjoyed and said, "is there only one person? That's a good chance! I can take a comfortable bath

He told Aesop to pack up and follow him.

When he got to the bathroom, Aesop's owner found that it was full of people. He blamed Aesop and said, "there are so many people in it. Why did you tell me that there is only one person?"

Aesop told his master what he had seen at the bathroom door and said, "when someone tripped over a stone, they only know how to curse and never want to move the stone away. Only one person thought of moving the stone away after tripping over so as not to trip others again. So I think only he is worthy of being a person

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I've never lied at all

Two hours

Once, Aesop met a pedestrian in the street and asked him the way.

Pedestrian: "how long does it take to get to the city?"

Aesop: you go

Pedestrian: "of course I have to go. I mean, how long does it take in the city? "

Aesop: you go, you go

He was so angry that he left.

A moment later, Aesop called to him, "you need two hours!"

The pedestrian asked strangely, "why didn't you tell me just now?"

Aesop: "I don't know how fast you walk, how long does it take?"

Heart and tongue

Aesop was a slave.

Once the host told Aesop to kill a sheep, and then stir fry a dish for him with the most delicious part of the sheep. Before long, Aesop brought him a plate of fried heart and tongue.

The next day, the host told Aesop to fry a dish with the most unsavory part of the sheep. After a while, Aesop brought fried heart and tongue.

"What's going on?" Asked the host, puzzled.

"Master Aesop said earnestly: "if the heart is upright and the language is fair, this is the best thing in the world. However, if the intention is sinister and the language is dirty, this is the most disgusting and dirty thing in the world. "

I really don't know

Once, the master sent into the city. On the way, he met a judge.

The judge asked him sternly, "where are you going?"

"I don't know." Aesop replied. The judge got suspicious and sent someone to put Aesop in prison first.

When the judge finished, he came to the prison to interrogate Aesop.

"You know, Mr. judge, I'm telling the truth." "I didn't know I was going to jail," Aesop said

The judge had no choice but to let him go.

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