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- Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
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Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
Mar 8, 2014 · Written by a former Greek slave, in the late to mid-6th century BCE, Aesop's Fables are the world's best known collection of morality tales. The fables, numbering 725, were originally told from person-to-person...
Aesop, the supposed author of a collection of Greek fables, almost certainly a legendary figure. The probability is that Aesop was no more than a name invented to provide an author for fables centering on beasts, so that ‘a story of Aesop’ became synonymous with ‘fable.’
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aesop may not have written his fables. The Aesop Romance claims that he wrote them down and deposited them in the library of Croesus; Herodotus calls Aesop a "writer of fables" and Aristophanes speaks of "reading" Aesop, [16] but that might simply have been a compilation of fables ascribed to him. [17]
Aesop was an Ancient Greek writer who lived in the 6th century BC in Athens, Greece. Aesop (Aisopos in Greek, Αίσωπος) is known about the myths he wrote, referred to as Aesop’s Fables. Little is known about the life of Aesop.
Apr 24, 2023 · Throughout the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries AD, several writers including Demetrius of Phalerum, the Roman Phaedrus, and Babrius (whom we know little else about) wrote down collections of Aesop’s fables.
The ancient Greeks believed that there had once been a man named Aesop who was the originator of the fable and author of its earliest examples, and it became traditional to attribute all fables to him, just as Americans currently tend to attribute any clever remark to Mark Twain.
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