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Greek Fables and Babrius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

W. H. Oldaker
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The fable as a form of story is characteristically Greek. It is true that fables are also found in early Oriental literature; but these are either imitations (and very feeble imitations) or parallel growths, which never reached the fine flower of the Greek versions. And from the earliest times fables have been associated with the name of one man: Aesop the slave.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , February 1934 , pp. 85 - 93
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1934

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References

page 85 note 1 Babrius, Introd., p. xxxv.Google Scholar