wordFableWords · Myth & storyA short moral animal-or-thing tale-word. Not parable as a teaching comparison, and not proverb as a saying.Hellenic religionFable appears in Hellenic religion.Hesiod’s didactic poetry carries animal and example fable speech among wisdom teaching. A named fable craft in that corpus, not parable as Qur’anic mathal and not Aesop as a missing source.from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesTheogony · HesiodHesiod, Theogony.