Resumo de Aesop S Fables

In its strict sense a fable is a short story embodying a moral which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fable" comes from Latin fabula (meaning 'conversation', 'narrative', 'tale'). A fable often, but not necessarily, makes metaphorical use of an animal as its central character.Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to him. Even today they remain the popular choice for moral education of children. Some of his most popular fables or narratives areThe Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The North Wind and the Sun, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Boy who cried Wolfand are well known throughout the world. Aesop's Fables has also become ablanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals.Aesopwas a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece from 620 BC to 560 BC. Though there is much obscurity shrouding his life, it has been generally accepted by various scholars that he was born in 620 BC in one of the five city states of Athens, Aethiopia, Phrygia, Samos, Sardisor Samos. So far all five claim the honor of being his birthplace. He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, with the latter giving him his freedom as a reward for his learning and wit. One of the privileges of being freed in Ancient Greece was that one could take active interest in public affairs. Aesop raised himself from the shackles of slavery to a position of high renown. In his quest to acquire and give knowledge he traveled extensively and eventually came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia. He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal patron, by the part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a proverb, "The Phrygian has spoken better than all."He set up residence in Sardis on the invitation of Croesus and was employed in various duties that involved delicate affairs of the State. He often visited different petty republics of Greece on behalf of his monarch and used these visits to narrate his fables to the inhabitants. Unfortunately, it was on one of these ambassadorial visits to Delphi that resulted in his death in 560 BC. Having been sent to Delphi with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. This cruel death of Aesop was not unavenged and the citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of calamities, until they publicly admitted their crime. "The blood of Aesop" became a well- known adage, bearing witness to the truth that wrong deedswould not pass unpunished. Aesop was posthumous honored with a statue erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.

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