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Aesop 620-560 BC (also spelle Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος—Aisōpos), known only for the genre of fables 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.

Trivia about aesop

  • "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties" was the moral of his "The Fox and the Goat"
  • One of the first printed books with illustrations was a collection of this ancient man's fables in 1476
  • In one of his fables, a bee of Mt. Hymettus asks Jupiter for its sting to be fatal
  • "Slow and steady wins the race" is a well-known moral from one of his fables
  • The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik's ballet based on this man's fables
  • "A hero is brave in deeds as well as words" is the moral of one of his fables
  • This Greek came bearing fables with morals like "The gods help those who help themselves"
  • "The Frog and the Ox" by this fabulist says, "Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction"
  • The moral of this man's fable of the fawn & his mother is "No arguments will give courage to the coward"
  • A man of morals(5)
  • A fabulist:620-560 B.C.
  • Fable-d man(5)
  • Around 550 B.C.:"The boy cried, 'Wolf! Wolf!' and the villagers came out to help him"
  • An ancient fabulist:"Don't count your chickens before they hatch"
  • On "Rocky And His Friends", Charlie Ruggles voiced the role of this "fabled" old philosopher
  • Fabulous fabulist(5)
  • "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" is a moral from this Greek B.C. guy
  • "The angler and the little fish" is one of his fables
  • Turhan Bey, as this "Fabled" author, spent "A Night in Paradise" with Merle Oberon but without a "Moral"
  • "Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!
  • The 2003 musical "The Fabulist" tells the tale of this hunchbacked slave of Ancient Greece who told tales of his own

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