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[ * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually c... ]
; * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually came three ancient writers: Demetrius of Phaleron, Valerius Babrius, and Phaedrus. They combined Greek oral traditions with tales from India, translated them into verse, and credited them to a fictional...
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The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
; ...fable collections of the poets Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus; and the prose fable collections...the Life of Aesop or the poets Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus. In the past, many of the...Aesopica numeration system in Perry's Babrius and Phaedrus (Harvard University Press...
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The fox in world literature: reflections on a "fictional animal".
; ...the Aesopian tradition (ARENDT 1982). Many of these fox narratives were incorporated into the tale collections of Phaedrus, Babrius, and Avianus, which in turn continued to be influential until modern times either independently (such as the collection of...
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[ * About one in five of all American children are overweight. If current trends continue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of the boys and 40 percent of the girls born in 2000 will develop diabetes during their lives.... ]
; ...Historians tell us that Aesop, the guy with all those fables, probably didn't really exist. First century Greek writer Valerius Babrius compiled folk tales from Greece and India and invented the smart slave Aesop to act as storyteller. * Despite the "space foods...
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[ * About 47 percent of prescriptions written in the United States are for generic drugs.... ]
; ...overweight or obese. * Most of what we call "Aesop's fables" actually came three ancient writers: Demetrius of Phaleron, Valerius Babrius, and Phaedrus. They combined Greek oral traditions with tales from India, translated them into verse, and credited them to...
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