[MR] Aesopica (for storytellers and parents)

[Towey, Brian]

Wonderful!  I will definitely use this.

Many of the morals from the 1887 Townsend edition have become commonplace
sayings.  For example, "Necessity is the mother of invention" is the moral
of "The Crow and the Pitcher" (Perry 390).  Kids need to learn them to be
culturally literate.  Otherwise, when someone alludes to the "mother of
invention" they will have no idea what that means.
In the recent translation by Laura Gibbs, the moral for "The Crow and the
Pitcher" is, "This fable shows us that thoughtfulness is superior to brute
strength, since this is the way that the crow was able to carry her task to
its conclusion."  It may be a good rendering of some older texts, but it's
not exactly pithy, is it?  
-Charles Fleming


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hrothny [SMTP:nothingbutadame at inthe.sca.org]
> Sent:	Friday, June 04, 2004 10:04 AM
> To:	Merry Rose; A Tine of the Trident
> Subject:	[MR] Aesopica (for storytellers and parents)
> 
>    Laura Gibbs has webbed an updated Aesop site, now renamed
> "AESOPICA.NET:
> Aesop's Fables Online", at: http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/ . It has
> Greek and Latin texts of many of the major collections, all searchable by
> Perry number, plus over 1400 English-language versions of various fables
> by
> translators ranging in time from the 1484 Caxton to Gibbs' own
> translations
> of a couple of years ago.
> 
> (paraphrased from the message posted by John Dillon)
> Hrothny
> 
> 
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