Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop

Narrated by: Jonathan Kent

By their nature, "fables" are "fabulous", larger than life, the characters often using wit and guile to save themselves from circumstances. Thus Brer Rabbit is more than a bunny in a briar patch, just as Mowgli is more than a wolf child.

Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. Aesop's Fables are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand.

Fables from different cultures frequently overlap in the lessons they teach. If we would only stop to listen, there is an important lesson for us to learn from these fables; mankind is one, not several.

Public Domain (P)2005 Tantor Media, Inc.

Very important stories

Very enjoyable even for adults. Though the audio is quite old. Very interesting and good tidbits of knowledge.

Must for all English speaking interpreters!

Listen & learn where all those cliches we use really come from! As a bilingual & bicultural interpreter, I highly recommend this book in order to better understand descriptive grammar.

Hundreds of fables, one after the other

What did you like best about Aesop's Fables? What did you like least?

Love hearing all of these in one place. Amazing how they're millenia old, but so ingrained in our culture.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

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great for children!!!

it's vital that we don't lose these stories to history. so if you learn these growing up and if you did you are probably over the age of 35 or 40 at least then you should definitely play this on your smart speaker or on your tablet or on your phone for your kids that they can understand somebody's lessons and it's really clever the way he uses animals to represent people so that way it can take away any sense of prejudice against the individuals because the animals are used wonderfully. they're all still very applicable today. and each one gives us a story to have conversations with children and adults alike about life lessons and how some of the lessons in Aesop's tales are applicable to our lives now and how their application to our lives might have changed over time. A MUST READ!

an ageless classic

I enjoyed revisiting this collection of ancient fables. I'm always amazed at how much the wise words of this man who was born a slave have influenced western culture, and how timeless they still are.