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

Dogs
Dogs

  1. Wolves (Smart)
    • Smarts fables are truer to life nature 
    • the wolf seems to be the most ruthless of them all over the lion 
  2. More Wolves (L'Estrange)
    • An Agreement between the Wolves and the Dogs** 
      • could be adapted to fit another story with a similar moral 
  3. Dogs (Smart)
    • The Bitch and Her Puppies**
    • The Dog and the Crocodile**
    • Smart seems to have the darker vision out of the three contributors 
  4. More Dogs (Boothby)
    • The Embassy of the Dogs of Jupiter was such a weird fable
      • very far fetched, pun intended 
      • semi Typical fable of Boothby 
  5. Yet More Dogs (L'Estrange)
    • A Trusty God and his Master**
      • Want to rewrite this one
        • two paragraphs
          • first with one side of the story
          • second with another side of the story 
          • Rash Action 
  6. Cats and Weasels (Smart)
    • Weasel and Mouse
      • Roman version of cat and mouse 
    • The Battle of the Mice and Weasels 
      • Smart gets clever when rhyming with short words 
      • I often try to spice of writing with unique words, but it is more impressive to use small ones 
  7. Birds (Smart)
    • Jaw bird puts on peacock type feathers much like the ass in the lion's skin 
    • The Cock and the Pearl 
      • short, simple 
      • Mostly narration 
  8. More Birds (Boothby)
    • The Eagle and the Serpent 
    • & The Peacock and the Crane
      • Great and iconic imagery 
    • Peacock and the Crane have a great two side 
  9. Insects (Smart)
    • The Fly and the Mule
      • fly tries to drive the mule 
      • cute imagery 
    • The Ant and the Fly 
      • fly tries to convince ant that the ant should worship him as an alter 
        • Ant was actually a hard worker and saw through his arrogance
    • Not like much of Smarts other fables, more light-hearted 
  10. Insects, Fishes, and Frogs (Boothby)
    • The Ant and the Grasshopper 
      • one of the most famous of Aesop's fables 
    • The Crab and her Daughter 
      • Funny hearing how Boothby described teaching a crab to walk straight 
      • so outlandish it goes with his manner of writing 
    • The Two Frogs
      • I enjoy the idea of easily comparing two differences and how each develops and story and character 
  11. More Frogs (Smart)
    • The Proud Frog
      • Ends up dead from trying to make itself bigger by puffing its chest 
        • couldn't match the size of an ox 
    • The Frogs and Sun 
      • Aesop tells a story from his own perspective 


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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