Aesop (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Although some scholars claim that he is purely a legendary figure, the following assertions are most often accepted as historically true in the ancient sources pertaining to Aesop (EE-sawp): He originally came from Thrace; he was for a time a slave on the Greek island of Samos, off the coast of Asia Minor, in the service of a man named Iadmon, who later freed him; he was a contemporary of the poet Sappho in the early sixth century b.c.e.; and he was famed as a maker and teller of prose stories.
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