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21Marcus Gheeraerts l'ancien — Les Iconoclastes, c.1566 –1568 Marcus Gheeraerts l ancien (vers 1520–1590) est un peintre graveur flamand, actif à une époque à la cour des souverains Tudor, surtout connu comme illustrateur des Fables d Ésope parues en 1567 …
22Aesopian — /ee soh pee euhn, ee sop ee /, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables: a story that points an Aesopian moral. 2. conveying meaning by hint, euphemism, innuendo, or the like: In the candidate s Aesopian language, soft… …
23Marie de France — /mann rddee deuh frddahonns / fl. 12th century, French poet in England. * * * flourished 12th century French poet, the earliest known woman poet of France. She wrote verse narratives on romantic and magical themes and may have inspired the… …
24La Fontaine, Jean de — born July 8?, 1621, Château Thierry, France died April 13, 1695, Paris French poet. He made important contacts in Paris, where he was able to attract patrons and spend his most productive years as a writer. He is best known for his Fables… …
25Aesopian — adjective a) Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop b) Characteristic of Aesops animal fables Syn: Aesopic, Esopic …
26Demetrius of Phalerum — Statue of Demetrius at the entrance of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Demetrius of Phalerum (also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus, Greek: Δημήτριος Φαληρεύς; c. 350 BC – c. 280 BC[1]) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, a s …
27Aesopian — [ē säp′ikē sōp′ē ən] adj. 1. of Aesop or characteristic of his fables 2. concealing real purposes or intentions; dissembling [Aesopian language]: Also Aesopic [ē säp′ik] …
28FABLE — FABLE, an animal tale (according to the most general and hence most widely accepted definition), i.e., a tale in which the characters are animals, and which contains a moral lesson. The genre also includes tales in which plants or inanimate… …
29KI-BUKH — ( Book of Cows ), anonymous 16th century Yiddish fable collection. First mentioned in the mayse bukh (1602) as a morally corrupting book, the collection comprises 35 tales (each accompanied by an explicitly framed moral of the story ), deriving… …
