Aesop
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Aesop was a Greek fabulist 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 ta
Plaster cast of a Hellenistic statue thought to depict Aesop; original in the Art Collection of the Villa Albani, Rome
Aesop shown in Japanese dress in a 1659 edition of the fables from Kyoto
Image presumed to depict Aesop and fox, Greek red-figure cup c. 450 BCE
Portrait of Aesop by Velázquez in the Prado
Aesop's Fables
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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 as
Aesop
…Aísōpos; c. 620 – 564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist 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…
A Greek manuscript of the fables of Babrius
A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb
A Japanese woodblock print illustrates the moral of Hercules and the Wagoner.
The Nepalese Iisapan Daekaatagu Bakhan