Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Phaedrus’s Fables 3
6. Aesop’s Fables, and Every Body’s 7
7. A Human Zoo 11
8. Aesop’s human zoo The Stories
9. Creation and Birth 15
10. Sex and Gender 29
11. Size and Shape 41
12. Sight and Sound 57
13. Hair and Head 71
14. Genitals and Behinds 79
15. Part and Whole 91
16. Old Age and Death 101
17. Further reading 119
18. Indexes
19. Tables for the Fables 127
20. The Cast of Characters 131
21. Tempting Topics 135