‘Aesop’s Fables’ is a collection of tales from the Greek storyteller, Aesop.
He was a slave who lived in ancient Greece, between 620 and 564 BC. He was a keen observer of both animals and people. Most of the characters in his stories are animals, some of which take on human characteristics, and are personified in their ways of speech and emotions. Each fable has an accompanying moral to be learned from the tale. The fables, numbering 725 totally, were all passed down orally through generations.
Aesop loved to write stories which were mostly fables. A fable is a very short story with a moral, or a lesson to teach. Three centuries after Aesop’s death they were written down, and their author-ship was attributed to Aesop.
There are many famous fables, including the most famous ones like ‘The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs’, ‘The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse’ etc.
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