Aesop (ē`səp, ē`sŏp), legendary Greek fabulist. According to Herodotus, he was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th cent. B.C. and eventually was freed by his master. Other accounts associate him with many wild adventures and connect him with such rulers as Solon and Croesus. The fables called Aesop's fables were preserved principally through Babrius Babrius (bā`brēəs), fl. 2d cent.?, Greek fabulist, versifier of the fables of Aesop .
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Supposed author of a collection of Greek fables, almost certainly a legendary figure. Though Herodotus, in the 5th century BC, said that he was an actual personage, “Aesop” was probably no more than a name invented to provide an author for fables centring on beasts. Aesopian fables emphasize the social interactions of human beings, and the morals they draw tend to embody advice on how to deal with the competitive realities of life. The Western fable tradition effectively begins with these tales. Modern editions list some 200 Aesopian fables.
Aesop
..... Click the link for more information. , Phaedrus Phaedrus (fē`drəs), fl. 1st cent. A.D., Latin writer, a Thracian slave, possibly a freedman of Augustus.
..... Click the link for more information. , Planudes Maximus Planudes Maximus (plən
..... Click the link for more information. , and La Fontaine La Fontaine, Jean de (zhäN də), 1621–95, French poet, whose celebrated fables place him among the masters of world literature.
..... Click the link for more information. 's verse translations. The most famous of these fables include "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." See fable fable, brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits.
..... Click the link for more information. .
Aesop
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Aesop, with a fox, from the central medallion of a kylix, c. 470 BC; in the Gregorian …
(credit: Alinari/Art Resource, New York)
Aesop
?620--564 bc, Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirize human failings
Aesop
semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10]
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