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biography
pronunciation:
[eesop]
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| (?6th-c BC)
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| Legendary Greek fabulist. He is supposed to have been a native of Phrygia and a slave who, after being set free, travelled to Greece. The fables attributed to him are anecdotes which use animals to make a moral point and are, in all probability, a compilation of tales from many sources. The stories were popularized by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st-cAD, and rewritten in sophisticated verse by La Fontaine in 1668. |
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