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The Complete Fables by Aesop

4.0

(Re: the Temple translation) -- genuinely witty, amusing ditties that transcend millennia and give a portrait of ancient Greek life with the occasionally profound proverb thrown in. How many of these are actually attributable to ancient Greece (let alone Aesop himself) will always be up for debate, and certainly some of these 358 anecdotes (as compiled in this edition, anyways) have not aged well due to homophobic comments. But with the juxtaposition of darkness with animal imagery, we see how these were used as a precursor to modern children's tales.