A little fish pleads with a fisherman for his life, and the fisherman’s reaction is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Fisherman and the Little Fish
Fortune comes across a traveler in a precarious position, how she responds that, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Traveler and Fortune
A Farmer has a fox problem, and how he responds to that, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Farmer and the Fox
A monkey enters her ugly baby into a baby show, to the derision of everyone. How she responds to that derision, is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: Jupiter and the Monkey
The woodchopper has lost his axe in a pond, but never fear, Mercury will retrieve it for him. As always, Aesop and Ambrose have very different ideas about how that retrieval will play out.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: Mercury and the Workmen
Ouch! A man gets bitten by a dog, and Aesop and Ambrose have very different recommendations about how to heal that kind of wound.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Man Bitten by a Dog
Aesop’s fables are known the world over for their conciseness and easy to remember moral lessons. Ambrose Bierce couldn’t help but poke fun a bit at the seriousness of these fables, and produced his own version of Aesop’s famous tales that usually end a little more realistically. Read both versions here, or at Gutenberg.org (Aesop’s… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Cat and the Birds
Aesop and Ambrose go to bat over the fable The Farmer and his Sons, a fable featuring a dying man who wishes to teach his sons one final lesson. As always, the two stories tellers have different takes on what the outcome of that will be.…… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Farmer and his Sons
Aesop and Ambrose go to bat over the fable The Cat and Venus (or in Ambrose’s case, The Cat and the Youth), a fable featuring a cat being turned into a woman because she fell in love with a handsome young man. As always, the two stories tellers have different takes on what the outcome of that will be.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Cat and Venus
Kay Mack 