I have a term paper due tomorrow. Thanks.
I have a term paper due tomorrow. Thanks.
I don't believe he was a writer. He was a Greek storyteller. I'm sure you can get an exhaustive list of the fables attributed to him with a quick Google search.
Trivia: Aesop is pronounced EE-sop.
I just C&P'ed a list but the PC filter will not let me post it because a lot of the animals are male birds or are in the Asinus subgenus
Aesop is a nickname commonly used to refer to American rapper Rakim Meyers.
656 fables.
He didn't write them, he collected them.
He was a 15 century philosopher who figured out the best way to get kids to pass the very rigorous French national testing in biology was to tell them stories like "how the elephant got its trunk".
He wrote 83 fables, and is widely regarded as the father or modern literature.
Aesop (/ˈiːsɒp/ EE-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aisōpos, c. 620–564 BCE) was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) 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 are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
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 and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name have included Esop(e) and Isope. A later tradition (dating from the Middle Ages) depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last 2500 years have included several works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs.
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Most of his work appears in a book called "The Bible".
Why not the Illiad or Republic? Oh, you believe in Homer and Plato.
SMJO wrote:
Most of his work appears in a book called "The Bible".
SMJO wrote:
Most of his work appears in a book called "The Bible".
Where is he mentioned in The Bible?
Don't leave me hangin' man! Which is it! Is he the father or is he modern literature?!?!
I know Aesop wrote:
He wrote 83 fables, and is widely regarded as the father or modern literature.
Cappy Longstocking wrote:A later tradition (dating from the Middle Ages) depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian
yeah
even he coudn't "fable" his bro into the 1'40s or 7'20s...
Aesop was killed by a mob of angry citizens from Delphi for saying this:
"Some persons standing at the seaside saw an object on the ocean coming toward them a great way off, which had all the appearances of being something of importance, but when it came close enough to be discernible they found it to be a great mass of weeds and rubbish. Such, I find, to be the curiosity that brought me to Delphi."