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Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop
Narrated by: Jonathan Kent
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By their nature, "fables" are "fabulous", larger than life, the characters often using wit and guile to save themselves from circumstances. Thus Brer Rabbit is more than a bunny in a briar patch, just as Mowgli is more than a wolf child.

Aesop, an ancient Greek poet who was sold into slavery in the early sixth century B.C, relied on animal stories to convey his key points to his masters in court. Aesop's Fables are now classic, memorable morality plays in which amusing animal characters drive home thought-provoking morals to generations of listeners and modern day readers. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture yet their appeal lies in logic we still understand.

Fables from different cultures frequently overlap in the lessons they teach. If we would only stop to listen, there is an important lesson for us to learn from these fables; mankind is one, not several.

Public Domain (P)2005 Tantor Media, Inc. Classics Literature & Fiction Greek Classics For Kids

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Contrived 2,500 years ago by the Greek storyteller Aesop, these fables were only written down 300 years later. Jonathan Kent's narration revives the original oral tradition, and his voices for the animal characters make the little stories entertaining as well as enlightening. The variety of characters Kent creates will fascinate children, the better to impart the time-tested moral lessons still with us thousands of years later. The production squeezes 160 fables into 140 minutes, making each one last less than a minute.
Timeless Wisdom • Educational Stories • Excellent Narration • Cultural Significance • Moral Lessons • Concise Tales
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I enjoyed revisiting this collection of ancient fables. I'm always amazed at how much the wise words of this man who was born a slave have influenced western culture, and how timeless they still are.

an ageless classic

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It is what it is. This is a huge collection of fables. Narration is good. Simple.

classic fables

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I’m not sure the translator kept to the original morals of the fables. A lot of it seemed discretionary

Up for interpretation

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Very enjoyable even for adults. Though the audio is quite old. Very interesting and good tidbits of knowledge.

Very important stories

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Listen & learn where all those cliches we use really come from! As a bilingual & bicultural interpreter, I highly recommend this book in order to better understand descriptive grammar.

Must for all English speaking interpreters!

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Love hearing all of these in one place. Amazing how they're millenia old, but so ingrained in our culture.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

HAHAHA

Hundreds of fables, one after the other

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it's vital that we don't lose these stories to history. so if you learn these growing up and if you did you are probably over the age of 35 or 40 at least then you should definitely play this on your smart speaker or on your tablet or on your phone for your kids that they can understand somebody's lessons and it's really clever the way he uses animals to represent people so that way it can take away any sense of prejudice against the individuals because the animals are used wonderfully. they're all still very applicable today. and each one gives us a story to have conversations with children and adults alike about life lessons and how some of the lessons in Aesop's tales are applicable to our lives now and how their application to our lives might have changed over time. A MUST READ!

great for children!!!

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This audio collection had 160 of the fables, and I liked the variety of the selections. This was very enjoyable to revisit some childhood stories that I recalled and I had forgotten that they were such short tales. I had read some of them before, but others were new to me. I also enjoyed the use of animals to illustrate the morals of the tales. I was amazed that some common expressions we use today (such as physician heal thy self) comes from the morals of these fables; I guess I had never thought about where these expressions came from before nor had I recognized them as a youngster. The narrator did a decent job, so overall, I really liked this selection.

Loved the Fables!

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Each fable is completed in less than ninety seconds. They are read clearly, and with just the right touch of character. I think it would be perfect night time listening for a young child about to go to sleep.

Short, sweet and to the point

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all of these tales are jewels for us in our own lives. great rules to live by.

a must read

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