Ferdous Animal Fables

Author: Chen Zhanqi
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Around the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, a Roman named Phaedrus wrote the fable in Latin, which is the earliest written version of Aesop's Fables that we can see today. Although Phaedrus was merely a recorder compared to Aesop's Fables, when compiling the oral traditions, he also collected many other Greek fables and added many of his own ideas and creations. These animal fables have a tight structure, concise language, vivid imagery, and have influenced later fable writers such as La Fontaine of France, Lessing of Germany, and Krylov of Russia.