Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables, Part B

A bird wearing peacock feathers
Source: Un-Textbook
For the second part of reading Aesop's fables, I will be focusing on the story Birds from the story source "The Fables of Phaedrus" translated by Christopher Smart. This story is also multiple stories in one but instead of a donkey like in my first reading notes, this one is about a bird. The first story is called "The Vain Jackdraw" and in this story a Daw picked up quills of a Juno's bird and tried to wear them around other peacocks. The peacocks were not particular fond of this and "roughed" up the bird for it, driving the bird off. The second story is called "The kite and the Doves" and in this story about a hawk, which is called a kite, and doves. The doves are usually able to avoid the hawk due to their quickness at flight but the hawk was able to trick the doves and start to prey on them. The last story is "The Cock and the Pearl" which is about a rooster who stumbled upon a pearl on the ground. In the story the rooster decides to not take the pearl because he just wants food even though it was worth good money. This story can be interpreted two different ways. Either the rooster is smart or not obsessing over wealth and just wants the simple things or he is not smart for not realizing what he has right in front of him. I thought these stories were fun and was thinking of recreating them but with humans in a real world scenario.

Bibliography: "The Fables of Phaedrus" translated by Christopher Smart

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