We have heard many times the phrase "Aesop language."What does this term mean and where does it occur?It is not known to have lived such a person, or is it a collective image.There are many legends about him, and in the Middle Ages was written his biography.According to legend, he was born in the VI century BC.e.in Asia Minor and was a slave to the Lydian king Croesus, however, shrewd mind, resourcefulness and cunning helped him gain freedom and glorified for many generations.
Naturally, it is the founding father of this technique for the first time and used the language of Aesop.Examples he gives us a legend which says that Croesus, having drunk too much, began to assure, though can enjoy the sea and made a bet, putting at stake all his kingdom.The next morning, sober, the king sought the help of his servant, and promised to give him his freedom if he will rescue it.Wise servant advised him to say: "I have promised to drink only the sea, no rivers and streams that flow into it.Shut them, and I will fulfill my promise. "And since no one could fulfill this condition, Croesus won the bet.
Being a slave, and then a freedman, the sage wrote fables, which derided stupidity, greed, lies, and other vices people he knew - mostly his former master and his slave-owning friends.But because he was a free man, then clothed in his narrative allegories, paraphrases, resort to allegories and heroes of its findings under the names of animals - foxes, wolves, ravens, etc.This is the language of Aesop.Images in funny stories were easily recognizable, but "prototypes" could not do anything except silently rage.Finally, detractors planted Aesop stolen from the temple of the vessel, and the priests of Delphi accused him of theft and sacrilege.Sage has been given the option to announce a slave - in this case, its owner had to pay only a fine.But Aesop would prefer to remain free and take the penalty.According to legend, he was thrown from a cliff at Delphi.
Thus, thanks to his ironic, but allegorically syllable, Aesop became the founder of the literary genre as a fable.In the next era of dictatorships and infringement of freedom of expression fables genre enjoyed great popularity, and its creator was a real hero in the memory of generations.We can say that the language of Aesop far outlived his creator.So, in the Vatican museum houses antique cup with a picture hunchback (according to legend, Aesop had an ugly appearance and was a hunchback) and foxes, which tells something - art historians believe that in the bowl depicts the founder of the fable.Historians say that the sculpture series "Seven Wise Men" of Athens once stood a statue of Aesop cutter Lysippos.Then there was a collection of the writer of fables, compiled anonymous.
In the Middle Ages the language of Aesop was extremely popular: the famous "Tale of the Fox" is composed in such allegorical style, and images of a fox, a wolf, a rooster, a donkey and other animals derided the entire ruling elite and the clergy of the Roman Church.This manner to speak vaguely, but aptly and poignantly, Lafontaine enjoyed, Saltykov-Shchedrin, known slagatel Krylov's fables, Ukrainian fabulist Glibov.Proverbs Aesop translated into many languages, their term in the rhyme.Many of us at school certainly known fable of the crow and the fox, the fox and the grapes - these short stories moralizing stories invented yet antique sage.
not to say that the language of Aesop, whose value during the regime where censorship reigns today is irrelevant.Allusive style without directly naming the target of satire, his "letter" as if converted to a rigid censor, and "spirit" - the reader.Since the latter lives in the realities that are subject to a veiled criticism, it is easy to recognize it.And even more: a quirky way of ridicule, full of secret allusions requiring otgadki hidden symbols and images much more interesting to readers than direct and blatant accusation authorities any offenses, so the elements of Aesop language resorted even those writers and journalists who have nothingfear.Its use we see in journalism, and journalism, and pamphlets on current political and social topics.
