Aesop
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Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek —Aisōpos) (620-560 BC), known only for the genre of fable ascribed to him, was by tradition a slave (δούλος) who was a contemporary of Croesus and Peisistratus in the mid-sixth century BC in ancient Greece.
The various collections that go under the rubric "Aesop's Fables" are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoon.
Most of what are known as Aesopic fables is a compilation...
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