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Making an ass of Aesop's moral maze

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19980115
Author:David Lister

We think of `Aesop's Fables' as gentle little moral tales for children. But what about `The Camel who Shat in the River' and `The Beaver who Bit off his Private Parts'? These are not the Fables we grew up with. As David Lister explains, these are what the man actually wrote. A new book will show history's most famous fable maker to have a coarse and violent kink.

Robert Temple is a classical scholar. His wife, Olivia, is a translator. Together they decided to translate Aesop's Fables for a new version by Penguin Classics to be published later this month.

Meticulously, they sought out the ...

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