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THE DOLPHINS, THE WHALES AND THE GUDGEON

Translated by Robert and Olivia Temple

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This selection published in Penguin Classics 2015

Translation copyright © Robert and Olivia Temple, 1998

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ISBN: 978-0-141-39844-0

Contents

The Eagle, the Jackdaw and the Shepherd

The Cat and the Cock

The Goat and the Donkey

The Two Cocks and the Eagle

The Fisherman and the Large and Small Fish

The Fox and the Woodcutter

The Fox and the Billy-goat

The Man Bitten by an Ant, and Hermes

The Cheat

The Man and the Lion Travelling Together

The Bear and the Fox

The Frogs Who Demanded a King

The Ox-driver and Herakles

The House-ferret and Aphrodite

The House-ferret and the File

The Ploughman and the Frozen Snake

The Wife and Her Drunken Husband

The Woman and the Hen

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

The Stag at the Spring and the Lion

The Kid on the Roof of the House, and the Wolf

The Two Enemies

The Sun and the Frogs

The Mule

The Old Horse

The Camel Seen for the First Time

The Walnut Tree

The Gardener Watering the Vegetables

The Kithara-player

The Gnat and the Bull

The Ageing Lion and the Fox

The Snake, the House-ferret and the Mice

The Snake and the Crab

The Trodden-on Snake and Zeus