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Basically, the fables are didactic tales. The reader is supposed either to emulate or to beware of the behavior of the actors when faced with a similar situation.

BABRIUS is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on 'Aesop's', in Greek verse. He may have been a 'Hellenised' Roman living in Asia Minor during the late 1st century after Christ. The fables are all in one metre and in very good style, terse, humorous and pointed. Some are original. PHAEDRUS, born in Macedonia, flourished in the early half of the 1st century after Christ. Apparently a slave...

When winter comes, the grasshopper, who sang away the summer, turns up at the door of the industrious ant.

Coyote is featured in each of these Aztec interpretations of Aesop's fables. The illustrations are set in the twentieth century.