Fables
in The Oxford Companion to the Book
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History. 234 words.
A four-volume folio edition of La Fontaine’s Fables—each fable accompanied by a full-page plate by J.-B. Oudry (1686–1755
Fables
in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
January 2012; p ublished online January 2013 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History of English. 83 words.
The most famous writers of fables are — Pilpay, among the Hindus. Lokman, among the Arabs. Æsop and
fable
in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical Studies. 339 words.
a short story in the popular tradition of Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables usually deal with a conflict in
fable
in The Oxford Classical Dictionary
January 2005; p ublished online January 2005 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical Studies. 1114 words.
a short story in the popular tradition of Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables found their way into literature as
fable
in The Oxford Classical Dictionary
January 2012; p ublished online December 2012 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical Studies. 1116 words.
a short story in the popular tradition of Greece and other ancient cultures. Fables found their way into literature as
fable
in The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
January 2003; p ublished online January 2005 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Literary Studies (Early and Medieval). 781 words.
A fable, says Dr Johnson, is ‘a narrative in which beings irrational, and sometimes inanimate … are for the
fable
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; p ublished online January 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical Literature. 152 words.
In literature, a short story with a moral in which the characters are generally animals behaving as humans. The fable
Fable
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical History. 1562 words.
The fable genre is well represented in Greek and Latin literature from their very beginnings. The Greek poet Hesiod tells
Fables
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
January 2006; p ublished online January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Children's Literature Studies. 724 words.
Fables, like parables and allegories, are stories that contain a coded meaning, devised to convey a useful lesson. Often with
fable
in World Encyclopedia
P ublished online January 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: General Studies. 52 words.
Literary genre which takes the form of a short allegorical tale, intended to convey a moral. The oldest extant fables