Aesop's Fables (Penguin Classics) - Aesop
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AESOP’S FABLES
AESOP (circa 620 BC-560 BC). Although it is unlikely that many of the two hundred or so fables attributed to Aesop were created by him, his fame as a story-teller was so great and so widespread that practically any fable heard was likely to be ascribed to him.
According to the sparse evidence gathered about him from hearsay and the references to him in various Greek works (he is mentioned by Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle), Aesop was born ...