Pour beaucoup de gens ce sont leurs propres résolutions qui sont causes de leurs malheurs. (Fable 89)

Fables

Fables choisies, anthologie de morales

Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the later Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors.

Manuscripts in Latin and Greek were important avenues of transmission, although poetical treatments in European vernaculars eventually formed another. On the arrival of printing, collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted throughout the world.

Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. In addition, there have been reinterpretations of the meaning of fables and changes in emphasis over time.

Ces fables, à vocation pratique, mettent en scène des animaux qui nous ressemblent étrangement et l'évocation de la puissance de la nature par les splendides illustrations de E.J. Detmold augmente encore notre plaisir de la lecture.

Les Fables d'Ésope mises en français - avec le sens moral, en quatre vers, à chaque fable

VIIe VIe siècles avant J.-C. On le considère comme le père de la fable. Mais a-t-il vraiment existé ? Rien n'est sûr, il est convenu désormais de parler plutôt de textes ésopiques que de fables d'Ésope. Ces fables constituent une somme de la sagesse populaire des Grecs. Elles inspireront ensuite Phèdre à Rome, puis les conteurs arabes. Les fables d'Ésope ont été compilées et publiées au XIVe siècle, par Planude, un moine byzantin. Isaac Nicolas de Nivelet avait publié en 1610 une version d'Ésope en latin, et cette traduction avait été rééditée en 1660. La Fontaine l'a probablement lue...

Fables - Tome II

Une poule aux oufs d'or, une chatte jalouse d'un perroquet, un lion amoureux d'une jeune fille... Des histoires d'animaux pleines de malice et d'ironie où l'on s'amusera à reconnaître les petits travers des hommes.

"Pour beaucoup de gens, ce sont leurs propres résolutions qui sont auses de leurs malheurs" - Fable 89

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