Aesop's Fables. Life of Aesop. Babrius's Fables. (Classical Library Gredos nº 6)

The fable is considered the smallest among literary genres, due to its brevity and rhetorical simplicity. However, the collection of fables attributed to Aesop (620-560 B.C.), featuring talking animals and marked by their moral purpose, has enjoyed immense popularity and relevance, and has penetrated the repertoire of traditional knowledge. Although various authors rewrote the Aesopic corpus during classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th century, it was Aesop (whether or not a historical figure) who established the most enduring structure of this type of tales, populated by animals with human traits such as the vain monkey, the clumsy donkey, or the cunning fox. Translation and notes by P. Bádenas de la Peña and J. López Facal. Introduction by C. García Gual. Revised by J. López Facal and P. Bádenas de la Peña.

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