Aesop fables
Tortoise beats hare
Aesop's fables are short moral tales attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek storyteller.
The stories typically feature animals with human characteristics—the tortoise and the hare, the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf—and end with a lesson about human nature or practical wisdom.
The story of the ant and the grasshopper is one of Aesop's fables.
The phrase sometimes describes any simple story with an obvious moral.
- La FontaineFrench fable writer
- foxCunning wild canine
- crowLarge black corvid
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
parable · tortoise · moral education · honesty · grasshopper · city mouse · country mouse · cautionary tale · cleverness · oral storytelling · ant · folktale · sour grapes · greed · hare · slow and steady · myth · lion
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- fablestortoise and hare, hare and tortoise, the boy who cried wolf, wolf in sheep, wolf in sheep's clothing
- moral talesparable, moral stories, allegory, moral tales, cautionary tale
- oral traditionfolk narratives, campfire tales, epics, oral poetry, storytelling circles
- ancient textsscrolls, scroll, Euclid's Elements, Epic of Gilgamesh, codex
- Public Domainpublic domain, royalty free, creative commons, open access, commons
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Sensational cheap literature
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Aesop fablesepic novels
Lengthy, grand fictional works
stream of consciousness · War and Peace · realistic fiction · realist fiction · social realism
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