Week 13 Reading: Aesop's Fables (Reading A)

The Peacock & Juno

  1. The Gods (Davies)
    • Beauty contest among baby animals? 
    • First time I have actually read some stories out loud 
    • Very thankful for the preface's of each fable
    • Jove's Cask
      • I like the rhythm of this fable 
    • The Workman and Fortune 
      • Clever, also a good message about responsibility 
  2. More Gods (Smart)
    • Longer, more story to them
    • Juno and the Peacock*
      • Has great moral to the fable
      • could rewrite to mirror today 
  3. Fables about People (Boothby)
    • The Boy who Cried wolf 
      • aka the World and the Sheperd's Boy
      • I had never read the original before 
    • The Golden Goose 
      • aka The Man and the Goose 
      • again, never read the original before 
      • Shorter than I thought, but really flows off the tongue 
    • The Housewife and her Hen**
      • Very good and simple to recreate for today 
  4. More Fables about People (L'Estrange)
    • first fables by L'Estrange 
      • must longer, not cut up language
      • similar to modern traditional fables 
    • first two actually more difficult for me to understand oddly 
    • it would be difficult to get the meaning of the story without the ending explanation 
      • which I am sure was not offered if it was told back then 
    • I liked the Old Man and an Ass
      • it was the clearest of the stories, simple
      • I could assume the moral 
  5. Apes (L'Estrange)
    • An Ape and a Fox**
      • Good moral, and seems simple to recreate 
    • Interesting why he chose to write these stories about apes being that these are British and Celtic tales 
  6. Foxes (Smart)
    • Longer than Smarts earlier works 
    • Fox and Stork both tricksters
      • have heard of a stork being a trickster yet 
    • Sour grapes 
  7. More Foxes (L'Estrange)
    • L'Estrange vs. Smart foxes 
      • L'Estrange's are much longer fables
      • still involves similar characters just presented differently 
    • Some of these ending morals added just do not reflect the story in my eyes 
      • cock and the fox 
  8. Lions (Boothby)
    • Boothby goes for more of a rhythm, rhyme type of fable 
    • The Lion King haha  
    • Describes lions majestic but savage nature 
  9. A Lion and a Man (L'Estrange)**
    • Lion got in trouble with "counsels" for fighting a man
      • said if it happens again it will be worse
    • low and behold, lion and man going to fight 
      • mans idea 
    • Lion gets caught in the trap, loses his claws
    • Do not be disobedient  
  10. Lions and Asses (Smart)
    • Have a nice rhythm 
    • odd that a donkey would be part prideful 
    • I'm assuming that these animals have been chosen off of emblems or something to give them significance in real life
      • like a family crest or something? 
    • Many different versions of a donkeys significance  
  11. Asses (Boothby)
    • The Ass in the Lion's Skin 
      • doesn't fool anyone due to ears 
    • I enjoyed Boothby's ass fables more than Smarts 
      • they were more lighthearted and quick while reading 
      • I think Boothby has been my favorite of the three writers 
  12. More Asses (L'Estrange)
    • Two Laden Asses has a good moral 
      • the rich were robbed for their ignorance and the ass carrying the oat that followed close behind was not 


Smart, Christopher, et al. “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists .” Mythology and Folklore UN-              Textbook, mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/myth-folklore-unit-aesops-fables-in.html.

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