Aesop
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Mythology, Folklore
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Legends, Myths, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek sage and fabulist{$I[g]Greece;Aesop} Aesop invented fables{$IFables;Aesop’s} for the purpose of illustrating a moral (or immoral) lesson. He probably wrote nothing himself but was rather a famous teller of tales that were later set down.
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...
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