Capitolo 1
THE FABLES OF AESOP
A NEW TRANSLATION
OF V. S. VERNON JONES
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
OF G. K. CHESTERTON
AND ILLUSTRATIONS
OF ARTHUR RACKHAM
1912 edition
INTRODUCTION
_AEsop embodies not not an epigram common in human history; his/her fame
it is all the more deserved because he never deserved him/it. The firm
foundations of common sense, the aware hits to non common sense that
you characterize all the Fables, doesn't belong him but to humanity. In
the first history human anything is authentic it is universal: and
anything is universal it is anonymous. They are always there in such cases
of the central man that had the difficulty to pick up them before, and
after the fame to create them. He had the fame; and, on the
whole, he earned the fame. There is due to be anything great and
human, anything of the human future and the human past, in such
man: even if he only used him to steal the past or to deceive the future.
The history of Arthur is been able to be more anymore connected with really the
the Christianity that fights of Rome that falls or with the more pagan
traditions hidden in the hills of Wales. But the word "Maps" or
"Malory" it will always intend King Arthur; even if we find more old men and
best origins that the Mabinogian; or he/she writes later and the worse versions
what the "the King's Idylls." The room of his/her/their children that delicate histories are been able to come
out in Asia with the Indo-European run, now fortunately extinct; them
you/he/she is been able to be invented from of the fine French lady or gentleman likes
Perrault: they can be also possibly those that they professes to be. But us
he/she will call the best selection of such histories the Histories" of "Grimm always:
simply because it is the best harvest.
The historical AEsop, in till now as him it was historical, it would seem to
you/he/she has been a slave of Phrygian, or at least one not to especially be and
symbolically decorated with the beret of Phrygian of the liberty. He lived, if him
long live, around the sixth century before Christ, in the duration of that