Aesop’s Fables: They’re Not Just for Children

Aesop’s Fables: They’re Not Just for Children
The fable “The Wolf and the Lamb” is relevant for our times. The 1747 painting of the tale by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Palace of Versailles. PD-US
Jeff Minick
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The canon of Western literature is like some storied gold mine, deep and old, and filled with riches.

The Bible. The “Iliad” and the “Odyssey.” The “Aeneid.” “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.” “The Canterbury Tales.” Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” The plays of Molière and William Shakespeare. Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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