The Ants and the Grasshopper

by Aesop

Versions of The Ants and the Grasshopper include:

• "Of the Ant and of the Sygale" (1484), translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484
• "An Ant and a Graſshopper" (1692), translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists
• "The Ants and the Grasshopper" (1867), translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
• "The Ant and the Grasshopper" (1894), translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop
• "The Grasshopper and the Ants" (1912), translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation