Edmé Boursault
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Edmé Boursault was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer from the era of Louis XIV. He is known for his innovative theatrical trends, polemical writing, epistolary novels, and friendships with o
Edmé Boursault
Aesop
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Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous ta
Edmé Boursault
…Gaetano Donizetti (1834). Les Fables d'Ésope, comédie or Ésope à la Ville (English: Aesop's Fables or Aesop in the City, 1690). A moralistic play, where Aesop responds to any question and difficulty by reciting a relevant fable. The "superhuman wisdom and virtue" of the character were derided by later critics…
Plaster cast of a Hellenistic statue thought to depict Aesop; original in the Art Collection of the Villa Albani, Rome
Aesop shown in Japanese dress in a 1659 edition of the fables from Kyoto
Image presumed to depict Aesop and fox, Greek red-figure cup c. 450 BCE
Portrait of Aesop by Velázquez in the Prado