Aesop's Fables

Aisopeia Mythoi

Aesop (traditional attribution) · c. 6th century BC (traditional; surviving collections are centuries later) · Samos (Greece) · other

Brief prose animal fables teaching practical moral lessons circulate under the name of a semi-legendary former slave; the fables themselves survive only through much later collections and versifications, not from Aesop's own lifetime.