WRITER

Aesop

620 BC - 564 BC

Aesop

Aesop ( EE-sop or AY-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aesop has received more than 3,685,229 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Aesop is the 23rd most popular writer (down from 15th in 2019), the most popular biography from Bulgaria and the most popular Bulgarian Writer.

Aesop is most famous for his fables, which are short stories about animals that teach a moral lesson.

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3.7M
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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
99
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16.17
Effective Languages (L*)
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Notable Works

Aesop's Fables

1848

Æsop's fables

1502

Fables from Aesop

1500

The Lion and the Mouse

Juvenile Fiction

How can a tiny mouse help a big, hungry lion? Find out how one mouse becomes friends with the king of the jungle. Enjoy reading this Aesop fable.

1979

The Aesop for children

1919

The hare and the tortoise

Juvenile Fiction

Classic stories about a hare who is over confident and friends whose friendship is tested in time of trouble.

1962

Æsop's fables

Early works to 1800, Classical Fables, Fables

**WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass."**

1502

Fables

Fables, Greek Fables, Translations from Greek

The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.

1489

Aesop's Fables

Fables

2010

Aesop's Fables

Fables, Animals, great_books_of_the_western_world

Aesop fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.

1848

Aesop's Fables

Fables

2014