Aesop

620 BC - 560 BC *

Greek author of famous animal fables.

Aesop had his name attributed to an extensive collection of beast fables that were developed through the oral tradition of the time. It is not known whether Aesop was an actual personage or merely a legendary figure.

The importance of Aesop's fables was the moral message attached to each, which a situation involving animals was used to illustrate.

Rewritten several centuries later, his fables have become some of the most famous in world literature.

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AESOP, famous for his Fables, is supposed to have lived from about 620 to 560 B.C. The place of his birth is uncertain-—Thrace, Phrygia, Aethiopia, Samos, Athens and Sardis all claiming the honour. We possess little trustworthy information concerning his life, except that he was the slave of ladmon of Samos and met with a violent death at the hands of the inhabitants of Delphi. A pestilence that ensued being attributed to this crime, the Delphians declared their willingness to make compensation, which, in default of a nearer connexion, was claimed and received by ladmon, the grandson of his ol... [read entire biography]

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