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PUBLISHED
[United States] : No Publisher : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781627551977 (electronic bk.) MWT11532543, 1627551972 (electronic bk.) 11532543
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail. There is therefore some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other way, or if the influences were mutual
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