Horace (65 - 8 BC.) seems to allude to it in his Satires (concerning the grasping inheritance of a will which is so often frustrated) and Ars Poetica. The fable appears in the 2nd century Greek `Augustana' collection which is the oldest and largest extant collection of 231 prose fables in Greek. and were intended as a handbook for the use of writers and speakers. His Greek `Assemblies of Aesopic Tales' were gathered together towards the fourth century B.C. Most of the early fable collections seem to derive from this now lost manuscript collection of some two hundred fables compiled by Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens. Parallells of the story can be found in the sixth century B.C. The `Fox and the Crow' is an ancient fable. At the same time the terseness of most fable texts allows the artist a certain element of freedom where much detail and description is eliminated. The illustrated fable seems to be an ideal subject to consider, since apart from the fact that there are countless examples to make comparisons, the very brevity of its narrative eliminates the margin of choice for the illustrator, who can only operate on a fairly limited conceptual level. A single fable - `The Fox and the Crow' - has been chosen to make comparisons. This essay (relating to the evening talk on Wednesday 24 March 1993) looks at the fixed moment of choice that more than a hundred illustrators have made in depicting the particular moment when the action of the same story takes place. One of the first and fundamental decisions a narrative illustrator has to make about a picture is the selection of a particular passage of the text and choosing the precise moment when the action of an event takes place. All the representations of Art are necessarily restricted by its material limits to a single instant of time. They are fooles hopes, and youths deceitfull snares. Moral: Shun faithless flatterors, Harlots jilting tears Offering to give her thanks, her prize lets fall. While she to show her gratitude not small The Fox to gett her prey her forme admires The Crow with laden beak the tree retires To the students of the MA/PgDip Narrative Illustration/Editiral Design Course
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