Aesop biography of a great thinker
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Aesop
Ancient Greek storyteller
"Esop" redirects here. For other uses, see ESOP (disambiguation) and Aesop (disambiguation).
Aesop (EE-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. – BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greekfabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters.
Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος) who by his cleverness acquires freedom
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Aesop's Fables
Collection of fables credited to Aesop
For other uses, see Aesop's Fables (disambiguation).
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between and BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.
The fables were part of oral tradition and were not collected until about three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuou
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The life of Aesop
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Historical Greece Aesop was popular compared to Homer. His urban myths had been passed from mouth studied at educational institutions, placed online point. Aesop has been the earliest that underneath the guise of critters brought forms of men and women, generating humorous conditions and differing ridiculing the vices inherent in the two poor and rich: greed, stupidity, complacency, disturbance, laziness, greed, and deceit. His pragmatic, sharp fable attracted listeners.