Aesop

A Little is known about the life of Aesop. According to historical facts he was a slave, who lived in the sixth century BC in ancient Greece. Some legends suggest Aesop was an ugly hunchbacked slave, although his real appearance is a mystery. One thing is known for sure - Aesop was a very smart, creative and imaginative man... 

Aesop was a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. His existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, many 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 non-living objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.

The earliest Greek sources, including Aristotle, specify that Aesop was born around 620 BC in Thrace at a site on the Black Sea coast which would later become the city Mesembria. In the Roman imperial period Phaedrus, who adapted the fables into Latin, say that Aesop was born in Phrygia. 

     From Aristotle and Herodotus we know that Aesop was a slave in Samos and that his masters were first a man named Xanthus and then a man named Iadmon. That he eventually had been freed; because he argued as an advocate for a wealthy Samian and that he met his end in the city of Delphi.
     An ancient literary work called “The Aesop Romance” tells an episodic. It was probably the highest fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a remarkably ugly slave. His cleverness obtains 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) represents Aesop as a black Ethiopian. 
     Illustrations of Aesop in popular culture over the last 2500 years have included several works of art and his appearance as a character in many books, films, plays, and television programs. 




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