The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE.

Ben E. Perry ( compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables ) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.

* Berechiah ha-Nakdan ( Berechiah the Punctuator, or Grammarian, 13th century ), author of Jewish fables adapted from Aesop's Fables.

* parable: An extended metaphor narrated as an anecdote illustrating and teaching a moral lesson, such as Aesop's fables.

Although most of them depict Nasreddin in an early small-village setting, the tales, like Aesop's fables, deal with concepts that have a certain timelessness.

Some Nasreddin tales also appear in collections of Aesop's fables.

These ancient fables are today known as Aesop's Fables.

* Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.

One story is the fable of Androcles, which is often included in compilations of Aesop's fables, but was not originally from that source.

Momus is featured in one of Aesop's fables, where he is to judge the handiwork of three gods ( the gods vary depending on the version ).

While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.

In 1675 he provided the quatrains to accompany the thirty nine hydraulic sculpture groups depicting Aesop's fables in the labyrinth of Versailles.

He collected many of the fables that are known to us today simply as Aesop's fables.

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC.

Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the " absurdities " of Aesop from conversation at banquets ; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables " which he knew " into verses.

Nonetheless, for two main reasons-because numerous morals within Aesop's attributed fables contradict each other, and because ancient accounts of Aesop's life contradict each other-the modern view is that Aesop probably did not solely compose all those fables attributed to him, if he even existed at all.

The majority of the hundred fables there are Aesop's but there are also humorous tales such as The drowned woman and her husband ( 41 ) and The miller, his son and the donkey ( 100 ).

* Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Other notables examples include the Roman de la Rose, a 13th-century French poem, William Langland's Piers Ploughman in the 14th century, and Jean de la Fontaine's Fables ( influenced by Aesop's ) in the 17th century.

The appearances and personalities of other 1920s feline stars such as Julius of Walt Disney's Alice Comedies, Waffles of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, and especially Bill Nolan's 1925 adaptation of Krazy Kat ( distributed by the eschewed Winkler ) all seem to have been directly patterned after Felix.

The various editions of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Bewick span almost his entire creative life.

** Aesop's Fables, a translation by William Caxton

* The first translations of Aesop's Fables into Chinese were made at the start of the 17th century, the first substantial collection being of 38 conveyed orally by a Jesuit missionary named Nicolas Trigault and written down by a Chinese academic named Zhang Geng ( Chinese: 張賡 ; pinyin: Zhāng Gēng ) in 1625.

* La Fontaine's Fables, published in French during the later 17th century, were inspired by the brevity and simplicity of Aesop's.

The first printed version of Aesop's Fables in English was published on March 26, 1484 by William Caxton.

More recently, in 2002 a translation by Laura Gibbs titled Aesop's Fables was published by Oxford World's Classics.

Among these was Aesop's fables: a new version, chiefly from original sources ( 1848 ) by Thomas James, ' with more than one hunded illustrations designed by John Tenniel '.

Cartoonist Paul Terry began his own series, called Aesop's Film Fables, in 1921 but by the time this was taken over by Van Beuren Studios in 1928 the story lines had little connection with any fable of Aesop's.

Another example is the musical Aesop's Fables by British playwright Peter Terson, first produced in 1983.

He was later followed by Scott Watson, whose " Aesop's Fables " is a setting of four for narrator and orchestral accompaniment.

* Aesop's Fables Full English translation by George Fyler Townsend

The freeing of Aslan's body from the stone table by field mice is reminiscent of Aesop's fable of " The Lion and the Mouse.

Following Aesop's fable of the frogs who demand a king from the god Jupiter and are disappointed by the results, the film shows a clear preference not for the pre-monarchial or decadent democracy ( which would likely be the slant of an American or French film ), but for King Log's form of libertarian government.

The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several precautionary folkloric stories, including some of Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Aesop's Fables, repeatedly rendered in both verse and prose since first being recorded about 500 B. C., are perhaps the richest single source of allegorical poetry through the ages.

But, knowing well about what happened to the goose that laid the golden egg ( a reference to Aesop's Fables ), he lies to Porky that Daffy laid it.

The Ant and the Grasshopper, also known as The Grasshopper and the Ant ( or Ants ), is one of Aesop's Fables, providing an ambivalent moral lesson about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

Wells ' The Time Machine ), beast tales ( such as Aesop's Fables and Peter Rabbit ), and dream stories ( such as Alice in Wonderland ).

There are also Mediaeval tales such as The Mice in Council ( 195 ) and stories created to support popular proverbs such as ' Still Waters Run Deep ' ( 5 ) and ' A woman, an ass and a walnut tree ' ( 65 ), where the latter refers back to Aesop's fable of The Walnut Tree.

In that the tale deals with outside arbitration, however, it has certain points in common with another of Aesop's fables, The Lion, the Bear and the Fox, in which the first two beasts simultaneously attack a kid and then fight over their spoil.