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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

Aesop

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General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1434458350
ISBN13: 9781434458353
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: May 5 2009
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were invented by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BC. While some suggested that Aesop did not actually exist, and that the fables attributed to him are folktales of unknown origins, Aesop was indeed mentioned in several other Ancient Greek works - Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the absurdities of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables which he knew into verses; Demetrius of Phalerum compiled the fables into a set of eleven books (Lopson Aisopeion sunagogai), which have been lost, for the use of orators. There was also an edition in elegiac verse by an anonymous author, which was often cited in the Suda.

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