Aesop's Fables the 19th century, some of the fables were adapted into Russian, and often reinterpreted, by the fabulist Ivan Krylov. In most cases, but not all, these were dependent on La Fontaine's versions. Translations into Asian languages at a very early date derive originally from Greek sources. These include the so-called "Fables of Syntipas", a compilation of Aesopic fables in Syriac, dating from the 9/11th centuries. Included there were several other tales of possibly West Asian origin. In Central Asia there was a 10th-century collection of the fables in Uighur. After the Middle Ages, fables largely deriving from Latin sources were
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching distinctions between the single and doubled consonants that are present in Italian are recognised. The following diphthongs are pronounced like the similarly-written Italian diphthongs: Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching Ancient Greek has been pronounced in various ways by those studying Ancient Greek literature in various times and places. This article covers those pronunciations; the modern scholarly reconstruction of its ancient pronunciation is covered in Ancient Greek phonology. Among speakers of Modern Greek, from the Byzantine Empire to modern Greece, Cyprus, and the Greek diaspora, Greek texts from every period have always been pronounced by using the contemporaneous local Greek