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Aesops Fables  Illuminations From A..., Aesop
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Aesop‘s Fables - Illuminations From Aesop‘s Fables A Treasury Of Lost Tales

Author: Aesop

Narrator: Eden Giuliano & The Icon Players

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2019


Synopsis

11-year-old actor Eden Giuliano presents a brand new line of exciting children’s stories from Icon!

Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient Greek slave born about 620 B.C. Aesop is known as a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables shining glaringly true light on our human foibles now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave who by his cleverness acquires freedom and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. A later tradition depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. But whatever his history, the fables depict truths about human behavior, our strengths and weakness that have remained true for 2500 years.

We know you will enjoy this very special series from Icon Audio Arts hosted by young Eden Giuliano!

Series Host Eden Giuliano

Series producer Avalon Giuliano in New York

Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan and Geoffrey Giuliano in Delhi

Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok

Special thanks to Brandon Stickney and Sanjay Khemani

DEDICATED TO VRNDA DEVI

Music by AudioNautix

©2019 Icon Audio Arts (P)2019 Icon Audio Arts


About Aesop

Aesop (620-560 BC) was a slave in ancient Greece who is known only for the genre of fables that are ascribed to him. The various collections that go under the rubric "Aesop's Fables" are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by هدى

يقال إن هذه الحكايات حكايات شعبية يونانية جمعت ووضعت تحت إسم مؤلف متخيل أسموه أيسوب ربما بنفس الطريق التي راح بها الأخوين جريم يجمعان الفولكلور الألماني ووضعوه في قصصهم الخرافيةالأشهر ولكن هناك فريق آخر يرى أن أيسوب شخصية حقيقية وأن هذه القصص فعلا من تأليفه وبغض النظر عن الحقيقة فالحكايات هنا مثلها مثل ك......more

Goodreads review by James

How often in life these little fables come up and we forget their original (or semi-original) source. Thousands of years old... parables told over and over again, then written down. What do they really mean, you can ask yourself these questions over and over again and have a different answer each ti......more

Aesop wrote many intelligent fables in here, and some are real life lessons. One of the most famous, and also the one I take the most from, is The Hare and the Tortoise. We all know the story and the maxim: slow and steady wins the race. Being arrogant and fast isn’t all that. I remember reading thi......more

Goodreads review by Manny

I was looking for a Christmas present for my nephew the other day when I noticed an edition of Aesop's Fables in Blackwells. I had a copy myself when I was a kid, and it was one of my favourite books. I can't guess how many times I read it. Thinking about it now, it surprises me to realise how fresh......more