Aesop Versus Jesus

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A well known example of stories with a moral theme, with no clear idea of exactly who wrote what and when.

Collectively they became Aesop's Fables.

It should be be no mystery as to how the gospel stories and other versions of Jesus came about.

That the gospel Jesus is said to have used parables is far from unique. Substitute the word fable for parable.

Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear 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 were part of oral tradition and were not collected until about 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 Late 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 transmissions, 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.


Fictions that point to the truth

The fables, Library Of Congress

Library of Congress Aesop Fables

I knew the Ant And Grasshopper[er tale as a kid. Talking aninaks. They were in ki9ds cartoons in the 50s 60s