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The Belly and the Members
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The Belly and the Members is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 130 in the Perry Index. It has been interpreted in varying political contexts over the centuries.
Wenceslas Hollar's illustration from John Ogilby's version of the fables, 1668.
Wenceslas Hollar's illustration from John Ogilby's version of the fables, 1668.
Kawanabe Kyosai's Aesopic satire, The lazy one in the middle, 1870-80
Kawanabe Kyosai's Aesopic satire, The lazy one in the middle, 1870-80
Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.
A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb
A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb
A Greek manuscript of the fables of Babrius
A Greek manuscript of the fables of Babrius
12th-century pillar, cloister of the Collegiate church of Saint Ursus, Aosta: the Fox and the Stork
12th-century pillar, cloister of the Collegiate church of Saint Ursus, Aosta: the Fox and the Stork
The Nepalese Iisapan Daekaatagu Bakhan
The Nepalese Iisapan Daekaatagu Bakhan