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Monster of ugliness and deformity, as he is also represented in a well-known marble Or rather romance, prefixed to a book of fables, purporting to be his, collectedīy Maximus Planudes, a monk of the 14th century. The popular stories current regarding him are derived from a life, The citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler. On which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade The Seven Sages of Greece with Periander at Corinth.ĭuring the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, Lived at the court of Croesus, where he met Solon, and dined in the company of The public defence of a certain Samian demagogue. That he was the slave of Iadmon of Samos and met with a violent death at the handsĪesop must have received his freedom from Iadmon, or he could not have conducted We possess little trustworthy information concerning his life, except The place of his birth is uncertain- Thrace, Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)Īesop (from the Greek Aisopos), famous for his Fables, is supposed Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. The rhetorical schools, and therefore of very different periods and degrees of The collections of Aesop's Fables that have comeĭown to us are, in part, late prose renderings of the version in choliambics byīabrius, which still retain here and there a scrap of verse partly products of The first written collection appears to have been made byĭemetrius of Phalerum, B.C. How Socrates, during his last days in prison, was engaged in turning the fables Teaching the lessons of life under the guise of fables about animals. Under his name were propagated in all parts of Greece,Īt first only by tradition in the mouth of the people, a multitude of prose tales That he next lived at the court ofĬroesus, and being sent by him on an embassy to Delphi, was murdered by the priests Masters, till Iadmon of Samos set him free. 600, he is said to have been at first a slave to several A Phrygian by birth, and living in the time of the Represent him as an ugly hunchback and buffoon. Was enveloped in an almost inextricable tissue of tales and traditions, which InĬourse of time, thanks to his plain, popular manner, the story of his own life His name and person had become typical of that entire class of literature.

Who created an independent class of stories about animals, so that in a few generations A famous writer of fables, the first author

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