Word: aesop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Photographs of some of the portraits on which the lecture will touch, have been hung on the north wall in the upper gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. Some of the most interesting are of Julius Cxsar, Anacreon, Alcibiades, Aristotle, Aesop, Demosthenes, Socrates and Sophocles...
...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...
...whole matter of the sources from which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka," which contains 550 stories of the Buddha's former births. The sources of the first six books of La Fontaine may be traced to Aesop and to Pheidros; from seven to eleven the books were derived in their sources from the oriental, that is, the Jataka and Bidpai literature...
...comparison or likeness, and as in all speech we are simply executing comparison the word came to mean in the olden times to talk or to speak. Parable afterwards came to mean condensed speech, and in this way the smiles of Homer and others and the fables of Aesop are kindred to the parables of Jesus. Two fables occur in the Old Testament. Jesus must have been familiar with the use of fables, but he never used them, because they were inadequate for his purpose. Fables make our thoughts entertaining, but unlike parables they are very often untrue and thus...