Posted on 12/28/2022 7:33:58 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On an unknown date around the 560s B.C.E., the storyteller Aesop is supposed to have been executed in Delphi by being hurled from the Hyampeia rock.
The semi-legendary fable-fashioner is not quite so irretrievable to history as, say, Homer, although assuredly many or all of the tales that have accrued under the heading “Aesop’s Fables” trace to origins other than this man.
Supposed to have lived from the late 7th to mid 6th centuries B.C.E., Aesop is first referenced by history’s first historian, Herodotus.
But by way of summation, we cannot improve upon Plutarch‘s succinct description of Aesop’s fate in his essay, “On God’s Slowness to Punish Evil”. (Available here; a different translation is free online here.)....
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Supposed to have lived from the late 7th to mid 6th centuries B.C.E. BC, Aesop is first referenced by history’s first historian, Herodotus.
FIFY
Exactly. I stop reading/listening when “B.C.E.” or “Common Era” is used.
BC...Before Christ
If Aesop lived today, he would be “cancelled” for the crime of propagating misinformation.
It’s BC and AD. Nothing more or less. Don’t be stupid about it.
I translate BCE to “Before Christ Enters” in my mind just to tweak the libs who made this “change” to the vernacular.
If Aesop lived today, he would be “cancelled” for the crime of propagating misinformation.That and abuse of small animals and the vain.
And just like that old story, about the turtle and the hare, when Dan crossed over the finish line, he found Shorty waiting there.
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