Aesop's Fables
Aesop, -600
Eight-line stories that did the work of sermons, proverbs and parenting for two and a half thousand years, and still land in a single read.
Aesop
Nobody knows whether Aesop existed. Herodotus placed him on Samos in the sixth century BCE as a slave; the first written collection of the fables came about three centuries later.
Feels like morality, humor and power.
What it costs to love something the world finds ridiculous.
Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts, and offered a prize to the one who, in his judgment, produced the most beautiful offspring. Among the rest came the Monkey, carrying a baby monkey in her arms, a hairless, flat-nosed little fright. When they saw it, the gods all burst into peal on peal of laughter; but the Monkey hugged her little one to her, and said, “Jupiter may give the prize to whomsoever he likes: but I shall always think my baby the most beautiful of them all.” Books by Aesop
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