Quotes from book
The Wolf and the Lamb

Name: The Wolf and the Lamb
Author: Aesop

Aesop Original title Το αρνί και ο Λύκος (Greek)

The Wolf and the Lamb is a well-known fable of Aesop and is numbered 155 in the Perry Index. There are several variant stories of tyrannical injustice in which a victim is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defence.

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

Aesop book The Wolf and the Lamb

The Wolf and the Lamb.

Similar authors

Aesop 36

ancient Greek storyteller -620–-564 BC

Isocrates 23

ancient greek rhetorician

Hippocrates 33

ancient Greek physician

Xenophon 21

ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Sappho 16

ancient Greek lyric poet

Sophocles 68

ancient Greek tragedian

Démosthenés 11

ancient greek statesman and orator

Plutarch 251

ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Aeschylus 119

ancient Athenian playwright

Epicurus 30

ancient Greek philosopher