Aesop's Fable

Author: Wang Fuzheng
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Aesop (Aisopos) lived around the 6th century BC and was a Greek fable writer. It is said that he was originally a slave but later became a free man. He was skilled at telling fable stories and was eventually killed for satirizing the powerful (there are also legends that he would have been enslaved again and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff to show resistance). The Aesop Fables were created by him based on his long-term collection and organization of folk fables. Subsequently, during the long process of dissemination, the Aesop Fables were continuously refined and enriched. The Aesop Fables we see today may no longer be the original, unadulterated version from the 6th century BC, but this does not diminish the profound influence of this great fable master on later generations...