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Aesop
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Aesop (6th century
bc), Greek storyteller. The moral animal fables associated with him were probably collected from many sources, and initially communicated orally; they were later popularized by the Roman poet Phaedrus, who translated some of them into Latin. Aesop is said to have lived as a slave on the island of Samos.
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Aesop, storyteller, in Black history
Newspaper article from: Tri-State Defender; 2/16/2000; ; 491 words
; ...William Tri-State Defender 02-16-2000 Aesop, storyteller, in Black history AESOP(E sop), 620-560 B.C., whose talents...tradition before being written about 300 B.C. Aesop's wit and wisdom so impressed his slave master...
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Aesop Rock's hip-hop experiments pay off in None Shall Pass'
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 9/6/2007; ; 641 words
; CD review Lyrics roll off Aesop Rock's tongue like evenly paced soldiers...obsession with self-inflation, one topic Aesop doesn't get into much is the "I...acrobatics" of most hip-hop artists, Aesop Rock told SuicideGirls.com that he...
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CD REVIEW: Let Aesop tell you fables
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/6/2003; ; 677 words
; ...s" release escaped us, as befitting Aesop Rock's underground aesthetic. A key...record label, Definitive Jux (Def Jux), Aesop Rock has been spitting his deeply personal...latest effort, "Bazooka Tooth," presents Aesop's most fully produced album to date...
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WORLD'S FIRST ROBOT FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY ANNOUNCED; AESOP SHOWS HOW ROBOTICS CAN CUT COSTS IN THE OPERATING ROOM
PR Newswire; 5/9/1994; 700+ words
; ...Gynecologists (ACOG) meeting in Orlando, Fla. AESOP(TM) (Automated Endoscopic Systems for...gynecology and urology. While the name AESOP is usually associated with the legendary teller of fables, this AESOP is already a medical reality, having received...
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AESOP BUILDING ASIAN PRESENCE.
Magazine article from: WWD; 7/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...Australian skin and body care company Aesop has unleashed plans to expand in the Asian market. In December, Aesop opened a store in downtown Taipei, Taiwan...day was being met in Asia's 24 doors. Aesop is also sold in Japan through Barneys...
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A spectrum fable: how AESOP and XML improve naval operations.
Magazine article from: CHIPS; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...like to be a preschooler, you'll recall Aesop's Fables, short stories with moral lessons...ancient times. However, mention the word "AESOP" around the Naval Sea Systems Command...Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Program, or AESOP, is a surface Navy spectrum management...
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It's No Fable: World's First Internet Substitute Teacher Calling System, AESOP, Finds a Teacher for Every Classroom This Fall.
PR Newswire; 9/4/2001; 700+ words
; ...based substitute management system -- AESOP. This fall, some 72,000 teachers in...million students nationwide, will be using AESOP, which allows teachers to post their absences...view and accept as they become available. AESOP also allows teachers and substitute teachers...
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A MAN OF MANY, MANY WORDS THE NEW CD BY AESOP ROCK INCLUDES EVERY LYRIC OF HIS RECORDING CAREER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Fire and Knives," hip-hop artist Aesop Rock considered including a DVD, featuring...itself how it is, and that's that," Aesop said during a recent phone interview...rappers to include lyrics with their CDs, Aesop's new seven-track CD comes with an...
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Aesop's magic on stage
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/23/2008; 685 words
; New Straits Times 11-23-2008 Aesop's magic on stage Edition: New Sunday...with a new puppet extravaganza featuring Aesop's fables like The Boy Who Cried Wolf...children. His current repertoire includes Aesop's Fables, Animal Crackers, Mozart...
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Aesop: The Complete Fables.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...were written down as the work of one Aesop, a slave. When I bought S.A. Handford's postwar translation of Aesop's Fables in the sixties, the Penguin...a true bardic descendant of Homer or Aesop, an original, spontaneous conduit of...
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Aesop
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Aesop Little is known about the ancient Greek writer Aesop (c. 620 B.C.E. – c. 560 B.C.E...he may have been Ethiopian in origin. Freed from Slavery Aesop never wrote down any of the tales himself; he merely recited...
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Phaedrus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...but his fables in verse based on those of Aesop will live for countless generations to...in style than the animistic tale, the Aesop Fable has its foundation in this form of...Western tradition is thought to begin with Aesop in the 6th century BC. He created his...
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Fairy Tales and Fables
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...an appended moral are generally identified as Aesop's fables. Although attributed to Aesop, reputedly a freed Greek slave living in the...history. Caxton printed an English translation of Aesop's fables in 1484; Roger l'Estrange's 1692...
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Stevens, Janet 1953-
Book article from: Something About the Author
...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1982. Aesop, The Tortoise and the Hare, Holiday House...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1986. Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse...Holiday House (New York, NY), 1988. Aesop, Androcles and the Lion, Holiday House...
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children's book illustration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...animated sketches by Toba Soja and the first English edition of Aesop's Fables, printed by William Caxton in 1484 and illustrated...on Mulberry Street (1937). Boris Artzybasheff illustrated Aesop and The Seven Simeons (both 1937) with bold woodcuts. In...
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