#Aesop's fables

[potachi]

The Fox and the Grapes

[weirdlookindog]

Ernest Griset - Mercury and the Woodman

illustration from 'Æsop's Fables', 1869.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What does the fox say

"Νομίζω ότι αυτά τα σταφύλια ήταν πικρά ούτως ή άλλως."

[nemfrog]

Illustration for "The Fox and The Crow." Aesop's fables in rhyme. 1924.

Internet Archive

[thefugitivesaint]

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), 'The Council of Mice', ''Aesop's Fables'', 1997 Source

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) "The Fisherman and the Little Fish from Fontaine’s Fables" (1739) Oil on canvas Rococo

The story of the fisherman and the little fish was first recounted by Aesop, though La Fontaine’s later retelling would have served as Oudry’s primary source. The fable tells of a small fish is caught by a fisherman. The fish begs for its life on account of its diminutive size, suggesting that the fisherman should wait until it is larger, when the fish will make for a more filling meal. The fisherman refuses, noting that every little bit helps, and that it is stupid to give up a present advantage for an uncertain future gain—as the expression goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Yet there is no such proverb in French, and so La Fontaine concludes with the reflection that one possession is better than two promises: “un ‘tiens’ vaut mieux que deux ‘tu l’auras.’”

[intothestacks]

I made more posters to decorate the library next year!

If anyone would like to download a copy for themselves just let me know and I can send you the links. :)

If you have any recommendations of future quotes for me to do please share with the class.

[enchantedbook]

'The Nurse and the Wolf' from Aesops Fables, artist : Ernest Griset (1844 - 1907)

[mars-cant-draw]

euclid & scalene

i tried to draw a tiny mustache but you can barely see it :(

drawing this reminded me that i barely have any markers XD

[sannehnagi]

Arhak tširangaapišisii tatuumbapaš taalasa p'asaš huraq. Laataq anapaanaš itaakin a'arhak tuumbaaš nitl'ii paanatliit šikitš'ooqanngarhatliišaapia a'oqoqanaasii ga'asasavaaqitaakin. Taaškinnanapaanaššii iši'itšaq arhak ip'asavvaiiš a'išiinariš. "šahapia šasutsag?" anapaanaš ayupaš, "itšasa itšyooqurišaap taalaši a'innarhoq poqqaapia." Taaškinnanapaanaššii italaaq arhak iimikitš'ooqilapaš asaturhii, ayaak p'antloqit agipasavvaiyaq tanaraapia. "a'šahapia šasutsag?" "giintloq poqaahig a'innarhoq taalanivvayaapia." "asantoq!" anapaanaš ariš, "arhak at narhoqil poqašašiupinniiš a'taatlii šišaatiintšaap." A man is lost in the woods on a biting winter night. While wandering an other worlder came up to him, and finding a lost man promises to give him a place to sleep and to lead him from the woods in the morning. As they walked to the fairy's house the man brings his hands to his mouth and blows on them. "for what purpose do you do this?" the fairy asked, "I have no feeling in my hands from the cold, and my breath warms them." When they arrived at the other worlder's house the man is given steaming porridge, but when the man brings the bowl to his mouth he blows on it. "and why do you do this?" "the food is too hot and my breath cools it." "get out!" the fairy says, "I will do nothing with a man who, with one breath, makes hot and cold."

[stearleart]

Fox and the crow

Watercolour and ink illustration depicting a scene from the Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. I did this illustration for the charity, Settle Stories.

[timplatt]

The Sun and I: A New Fable from Aesop I'm Told

The Sun and I

The Sun, beating down upon my willing skin, sighed a sigh of such lowness that I had to ask the matter. 

“You block your head. You block your hair. You block your face. You hide all under your huge hat.” the Sun admitted.

“Yes,” I chose my next words carefully, “but the rest of my fair skin is open to your thick beams. Is that not enough?”

“No. I want what under hat too. I have always wanted what under hat and now I finally stand up for what SUN want for once. I want under hat. I want under hat too.”

The sun burned the hat off my head and fried its gifts over my crown, crisping me to charcoal dust.  

“Why?” the ashes that used to be my lips squawked.

The Sun exploded, unsafely. 

Moral:

Hats can bring out the best of us…

buuuut they also can bring out the opposite (the worst of us).

[weirdlookindog]

Ernest Griset - The Owl and the Cricket

illustration from 'Æsop's Fables', 1869.

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

were you scared? did you intend it?

do you remember when you rode on the back of a turtle? do you remember when a monk pulled you from the water?

are you used to kindness? did you know how to deal with it?

what was on the other side, my friend, that it cost you your life?

what happened on the river, my friend, that it cost you your life?

is it really your nature, or were you too ashamed to tell it the truth?

were you too ashamed to tell it: I'm sorry; I get scared too.

or were you too ashamed to tell it: I hurt everyone who's ever helped me; I want to change but the water's too high; you're shaking so much,

[nemfrog]

Illustration for "The Reed and The Oak." Aesop's fables in rhyme. 1924.

Internet Archive

[paintingpuff]

A quick little fable from Aesop