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Three hundred Aesop's fables

Translated by George Fyler Townsend

by Aesop, 621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop & George Fyler Townsend (Translator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"Three Hundred Aesop's Fables" by Aesop is a collection of fables originating between 620 and 564 BCE. These timeless tales feature talking animals, plants, and humans navigating moral dilemmas and life lessons. Originally part of oral tradition, the stories were collected centuries after Aesop's death and grew to include works from diverse sources across cultures. Each brief narrative offers wisdom through simple scenarios, often concluding with explicit morals that have shaped ethical thinking for millennia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “folklore” and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the description.

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  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

    • “Animism”· via Open Library

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Translated by George Fyler Townsend

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2008-06-25Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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