Journey to the Sea

an online magazine devoted to the study of myth

Articles Tagged ‘Aesopic Fables’

Aesop Illustrations: Telling the Story in Images

By Laura Gibbs • Dec 1st, 2008 • Issue 6

Laura looks at woodcut illustrations to Aesop's fables from 1479 to explore how artists can depict the plots of stories and how the illustrations themselves can become part of the storytelling tradition. Article »

Aesop, Diogenes, Rumi: The Lamp in Daylight

By Laura Gibbs • Nov 1st, 2008 • Issue 5

Laura continues her series on religious uses of Aesopic material, looking at an anecdote that made its way into the writings of the Sufi mystical poet Rumi. Article »

Zeus and the Turtle: An Aesopic Fable

By Randy Hoyt • Oct 1st, 2008 • Issue 4

Randy concludes his series on two Western themes concerning man's relationship to the divine by looking at the delightful fable of how the turtle got her shell. Article »

Rumi: The Fable of the Lion’s Share

By Laura Gibbs • Oct 1st, 2008 • Issue 4

Laura begins a series on religious interpretations of Aesop's fables by looking at the fable of the lion's share in Rumi, a thirteenth-century Sufi master. Article »