Proverbial Aesop: The Complete Aesopic Proverbs Translated with Commentary

While most think Greek and Latin are dead languages, classical ideas and expressions live on in modern times. Aesop, the teller of animal stories, has been familiar for over two millennia. However, there was more to Aesop, who was also a teller of proverbs. These proverbs were recently collected from scattered sources and now translated into English for the first time.
Proverbs are an older sort of wisdom, older than Greek philosophy itself, having a rustic, plain-spoken, often earthy common...