Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave
and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse
origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times
through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal
registers and in popular as well as artistic media.
The fables originally belonged to oral tradition and were not collected for some
three c ...