 The slave Aesop serving two priests, by Francis Barlow. Image by Francis Barlow, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The Four FablesAesop's Fables 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 620 and 564 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. Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. The fables were part of oral tradition and were not collected until about three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time,… (Source: Wikipedia)
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