Aesop’s Fables
Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek storyteller. His existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive. A probably highly fictional version of his life describes him as a strikingly ugly slave who by his cleverness acquired freedom and became an adviser to kings and city-states. Aesop’s Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables that originally belonged […]