یادداشت Masoud T

        Aesop’s fables are one of the longest-lived and most widely diffused genres of ancient Greek and Roman culture. As someone who has been raised with Persian culture, the animals of Aesop’s Fables sometimes have a surprising resemblance to the Hindu storybook (Panchatantra) which gave rise to the Kalila- wa- Dimnah, a book that served as a source for many of the didactic animal stories in the Islamic mystical poet Rumi).
 
Generally, the ethical value of the story is expressed by one of the characters in the story’s very last words, the same position occupied by the punch-line of a joke.  
Some others are based on a theatrical interaction between two characters,  like the famous story of the fox and the lion in the cave. In many cases, the stories create a negative model of silly behavior or mistaken judgment.  
 To sum up, Aesop talked about animals using jokes and stories about talking animals to make a sharp critique of human foolishness.