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(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Aesop
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Aesop

Sámos, Greece, about 620 BCE - 564 BCE
BiographyPage Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500094170
Aesop (Greek fabulist, ca. 620-564 BCE )
It remains uncertain if Aesop was a historical person or legendary. Although known for the fables ascribed to him, no writings by him survive. Numerous fables appearing under his name were gathered across the centuries in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. In many of these tales animals speak and have human characteristics.
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