Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables
Bibliography:
Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange (1692)
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/aesops-fables-another-lion.html
-In this story, a lion and a man chances to travel in a company through the forest and soon they began to boast each other about how their own species and kind was far more superior.
-The story is written in old English writing as expected and it may be a bit more difficult to understand the story but it is very much manageable.
-The lion and the man reached a clearing in the forest and saw a statue that was a representation of Hercules in the act of tearing the jaws of the invincible Nemean Lion.
-When the man saw this he told the lion that it is obvious that the man is stronger as the King of the Beasts was beaten by Hercules, a man.
-The lion proceeds to say that the status is made by a man and the story told would be different in a lion had made it.
-The moral of the story is that everything depends on the point of view and who tells the story. This is true in many cases, however, is not true in a lot of cases.
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