Lying between the grammarians' and rhetors' domains Aesop's fables were known and employed in
the Western and Eastern educational environments mainly for their intrinsically moral essence.
Once having explored the literary and grammatical texts concerning the educational role of
fables the book is focussed on the direct witnesses of Latin and bilingual Latin-Greek fables
(III-IV AD) coming from the Eastern school environments of which a new annotated edition is
given. A relevant contribution is offered both: 1. to the complex and (almost) anonymous
tradition of fables between the ancient Greek Aesop and the Medieval Latin Romulus and through
Phaedrus Avian and the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana 2. and to the role fables played in the
second-language (L2) acquisition and in teaching learning Latin as L2 between East and West.
