Author: Aesop
Narrator: Anton Lesser
Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 01/01/2000
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
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.
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
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