The Complete Fables

by Aesop

played have been as a children’s storyteller and as a clothes-horse for Victorian morals such as ‘haste makes waste’ and ‘pride comes

before a fall’ – no such morals actually occur in Aesop at all. The animal stories which parents still buy in quantities for their children’s birthdays bear little resemblance to the real Aesop fables.

true Aesop fables were likely to be the ones with mythological elements.