Aesop’s Fables: Aesop was one of the greatest moral story-tellers, using animals as his main characters. He lived from around 620 to 564 BC, and it seems that he was born as a slave who was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in ancient Greece. Gifted in the art of storytelling, he took fables to a new height in the Greek society and became very popular. As has happened to ancient writings, the original documents have not survived. However, many did write down individual stories or collections which were then gathered by Demetrius of Phalerum (ca. 350-ca. 280 BC) into ten volumes. Even this collection was lost. Such collection and losses continued for generations and each new collection introduced its own revisions of the original stories. Today there are an endless number of collections, often with the addition of stories picked up from other writers and nations.
Aesop’s Fables have given moral instruction to countless people worldwide, and that is why the book is alive even today in numerous editions and numerous languages. Christians would find it a useful book to give to their children.
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Aesop: A 2000 Year Old Depiction, Creative Commons
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