Τηλεφωνικές παραγγελίες: 24210 28971 - Δωρεάν μεταφορικά για αγορές άνω των 50€
Phone orders: (+30) 24210 28971 - Free shipping for orders over 50€
  • Greek
  • English
  • CONTACT
Login / Register
  • Greek
  • English
HELLENIC CULTURE HELLENIC CULTURE
  • HOME
    • MY ACCOUNT
    • CONTACT
    • ABOUT
    • BLOG
      • AGGELOS BASTIS
      • THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
        • FIGURINES & OBJECTS
        • EXHIBITIONS
        • HELLAS
        • THESSALY
        • WORLD
        • CULTURE
        • MUSEUM OF VOLOS
      • HELLAS
        • AEGEAN SEA
        • THESSALY
        • CRETE
        • MACEDONIA
        • CENTRAL GREECE
  • DECOR
    • BOOKENDS
    • BOXES
    • CANDLE HOLDERS
    • CUSHIONS
    • DECOR
      • ASHTRAY
      • PHOTO FRAMES
    • DOLLS
      • CLOTH
      • PERFUME
      • PLASTIC
      • PORCELAIN
    • LUCKY CHARMS
    • OTHER
    • RELIGIOUS ART
    • STATUETTES / SCULPTURES
      • BRONZE STATUETTES
      • CERAMIC STATUETTES
      • CERAMINE STATUETTES
      • OTHER STATUETTES
    • TOYS
    • VASES
    • WALL HANGINGS
  • TABLEWARE
    • APRONS
    • BISCUIT BOXES
    • BOTTLE OPENERS
    • BOTTLES
    • BOWLS
    • CANDLES / REED DIFFUSERS
    • COASTERS
    • COFFEE CUPS
    • JUGS / KARAFA
    • LINEN
    • MUGS
      • CERAMIC
      • PORSELAIN
    • PLATES
    • PLATTERS
    • SALT PEPPER SHAKERS
    • TABLECLOTHES
    • TABLEWARE
    • TRAYS
  • STATIONERY
    • BOOKMARK
    • BOOKMARKS
    • BUSINESS CARD HOLDERS
    • FRIDGE MAGNETS
    • LETTER OPENERS
    • MOUSE PADS
    • NOTEBOOKS
    • PAPER WEIGHTS
    • POST CARDS
    • PUZZLES
    • WRITING MATERIALS
  • BOOKS
  • JEWELRY
    • BRACELETS
    • BROOCHES
    • EARRINGS
    • NECKLACE / PENDANTS
    • RINGS
  • CLOTHING
    • COVERUP
    • DRESSES
    • LIGHT JACKETS
    • SHIRTS
    • SHORTS
    • SKIRTS
    • SUMMER CLOTHES
      • PLAYSUITS / JUMPSUITS
    • SWEATSHIRTS
    • T-SHIRTS
    • TOPS
    • TROUSERS
  • ACCESSORIES
    • BAGS
    • HATS
    • KEYRINGS
    • PAREOS
    • POCKET MIRRORS
    • SCARVES
    • WORRY BEADS / KOMBOLOI
  • CARE PRODUCTS
  • KIDS
    • BOOKS
    • CLOTHING
    • DOLLS
    • JEWELLERY
    • TOYS
Search
0 items 0.00€
Menu
Search
HELLENIC CULTURE
Login / Register
0 items 0.00€
Home SHOP BOOKS Aesop’s Fables & Jokes by Ierocles
Folk-Tales from Greece II 7.90€
Back to products
LoveGreece Khaki Panel Hat 27.00€

Aesop’s Fables & Jokes by Ierocles

7.90€

Aesop

Nothing is known for certain about the life of Aesop, though legend has it that he lived in the sixth century BC and came from Phrygia, in Asia Minor. Supposedly a slave who had been set free by his master, he was said to have spoken with a stutter and to have been an ugly, hunchbacked man. He lived on the island of Samos until he gained his freedom, then travelled in Asia and Egypt before coming to Greece, where he spent time both in the city of Corinth, under Periander, and in Athens, whose ruler at that time was the lawmaker and poet Solon, thus coming into contact with the so-called ‘seven wise men’ of ancient Greece, whose rational way of thinking had much in common with Aesop’s own. According to the same tradition, Aesop met his death at Delphi, murdered by its angry citizens for declaring them unworthy of the gift of gold that King Croesus had sent him to distribute. The work that he has left us consists of over two hundred short fables, usually with talking animals as heroes but occasionally with men or even gods, in which cunning is entertainingly pitted against naïveté, and malice against kind-heartedness, till in the end some kind of instructive conclusion is always drawn. This is invariably expressed in the form of a moral, even when the conclusion is so obvious as not to need restating. The oldest surviving collection of Aesop’s fables was compiled by Demetrius of Phalirea in the fourth century BC, and was followed by many others, not always accurately recorded, with the result that the original form of each tale slowly faded into the mists of time. Yet in his fables, Aesop had created a new and original category of writing, even if it was one that no other writer took up after him. Those later writers who reworked a number of his fables merely added literary flourishes to the bare style of the originals. Particularly successful versions were produced by the French writers La Fontaine in the seventeenth century and Florian in the eighteenth, followed by the Russian author Krilov in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. All of these were in verse. Aesop’s fables have become so popular over the years that they have been republished countless times in one form or another and have kept readers both young and old amused for centuries. They may not be great works of literature, but they have remained among the most widely read stories of all times.

The present edition, which presents the fables in their original simple form, aims not only to entertain the reader but to give him a closer experience of this unique and, one might add, immortal form of the written word.

Ierocles

A philosopher who taught at the Neo-Platonist school in Alexandria from 420-450AD, Ierocles was influenced both by Platonic philosophy and by the peripatetics and the stoics. Among his writings there have also been preserved some one hundred and fifty jokes from which the selection below is taken. Although more than fifteen hundred years have passed since they were written, they still have the power to make us laugh today.


Menelaos Stephanides

Weight 0.200 kg
Dimensions 11.50 × 16.50 cm
LANGUAGE

English

,

German

Πληροφορίες

192 pages
Soft cover

Clear
SKU: 61301 Categories: KIDS, BOOKS, BOOKS
Share:

Related products

Add to cart

Activities Book – Greek Labyrinths

8.80€
Sold out
Read more

Coloring Book – Greek Mythology

5.50€
Add to cart

EROS – Love life in Ancient Greece

13.90€
Add to cart

Gods in Love I

8.80€
Add to cart

Greek Mythology

13.90€
Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

Oedipus – The Tragedies

7.90€
Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

The Odyssey

7.90€
Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

Theseus – Perseus

7.90€

    WHERE TO FIND US
    Tel: (+30) 24210 28971
    Email: [email protected]
    Dimitriados 239, Volos, 38221
    FREQUENT QUESTIONS
    • Orders
    • Shipping & Payment
    • Returns
    USEFUL LINKS
    • Contact
    • About
    • My Account
    SHOP POLICIES
    • Privacy & Cookies
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Property Rights

    ©2024 HELLENIC-CULTURE.GR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
    Payment methods
    Close
    • HOME
      • MY ACCOUNT
      • CONTACT
      • ABOUT
      • BLOG
        • AGGELOS BASTIS
        • THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
          • FIGURINES & OBJECTS
          • EXHIBITIONS
          • HELLAS
          • THESSALY
          • WORLD
          • CULTURE
          • MUSEUM OF VOLOS
        • HELLAS
          • AEGEAN SEA
          • THESSALY
          • CRETE
          • MACEDONIA
          • CENTRAL GREECE
    • DECOR
      • BOOKENDS
      • BOXES
      • CANDLE HOLDERS
      • CUSHIONS
      • DECOR
        • ASHTRAY
        • PHOTO FRAMES
      • DOLLS
        • CLOTH
        • PERFUME
        • PLASTIC
        • PORCELAIN
      • LUCKY CHARMS
      • OTHER
      • RELIGIOUS ART
      • STATUETTES / SCULPTURES
        • BRONZE STATUETTES
        • CERAMIC STATUETTES
        • CERAMINE STATUETTES
        • OTHER STATUETTES
      • TOYS
      • VASES
      • WALL HANGINGS
    • TABLEWARE
      • APRONS
      • BISCUIT BOXES
      • BOTTLE OPENERS
      • BOTTLES
      • BOWLS
      • CANDLES / REED DIFFUSERS
      • COASTERS
      • COFFEE CUPS
      • JUGS / KARAFA
      • LINEN
      • MUGS
        • CERAMIC
        • PORSELAIN
      • PLATES
      • PLATTERS
      • SALT PEPPER SHAKERS
      • TABLECLOTHES
      • TABLEWARE
      • TRAYS
    • STATIONERY
      • BOOKMARK
      • BOOKMARKS
      • BUSINESS CARD HOLDERS
      • FRIDGE MAGNETS
      • LETTER OPENERS
      • MOUSE PADS
      • NOTEBOOKS
      • PAPER WEIGHTS
      • POST CARDS
      • PUZZLES
      • WRITING MATERIALS
    • BOOKS
    • JEWELRY
      • BRACELETS
      • BROOCHES
      • EARRINGS
      • NECKLACE / PENDANTS
      • RINGS
    • CLOTHING
      • COVERUP
      • DRESSES
      • LIGHT JACKETS
      • SHIRTS
      • SHORTS
      • SKIRTS
      • SUMMER CLOTHES
        • PLAYSUITS / JUMPSUITS
      • SWEATSHIRTS
      • T-SHIRTS
      • TOPS
      • TROUSERS
    • ACCESSORIES
      • BAGS
      • HATS
      • KEYRINGS
      • PAREOS
      • POCKET MIRRORS
      • SCARVES
      • WORRY BEADS / KOMBOLOI
    • CARE PRODUCTS
    • KIDS
      • BOOKS
      • CLOTHING
      • DOLLS
      • JEWELLERY
      • TOYS
    Shopping cart
    Close
    Start typing to see products you are looking for.
    Consent
    To provide the best experience, we use technologies such as cookies to store and/or access device information. Consent to these technologies will allow us to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique identifiers on this website. Non-consent or withdrawal of consent may adversely affect certain functions and features.
    Functional Always active
    The technical storage or access is absolutely necessary for the legitimate purpose of being able to use a specific service expressly requested by the subscriber or user or for the sole purpose of transmitting communication via an electronic communications network.
    Προτιμήσεις
    Technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences not requested by the subscriber or user.
    Statistical
    Technical storage or access used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of the Internet Service Provider, or additional logging by a third party, the information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot normally be used to identify you.
    Εμπορικής Προώθησης
    Technical storage or access is required to create user profiles, to send advertisements or to register the user on a website or websites for similar marketing purposes.
    Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
    PREFERENCES
    {title} {title} {title}