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Aesop

620 BC - 564 BC

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Aesop ( EE-sop or AY-sop; 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 3,408,466 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 99

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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

Page views of Aesops by language

Over the past year Aesop has had the most page views in the with 481,939 views, followed by Spanish (165,619), and French (89,150). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Telugu (435.53%), Mingrelian (432.23%), and Malagasy (103.60%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aesop ranks 23 out of 7,302. Before him are Virgil, Albert Camus, Molière, Anton Chekhov, Petrarch, and Honoré de Balzac. After him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ovid, Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Denis Diderot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 620 BC, Aesop ranks 1. After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Sushruta. Among people deceased in 564 BC, Aesop ranks 1. 

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    Aesop

    WRITER

    620 BC - 564 BC

    HPI: 83.44

    Rank: 1

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Aesop ranks 1 out of 415. After him are Ahmed III (1673), Belisarius (505), Elias Canetti (1905), Flavius Aetius (390), Georgi Dimitrov (1882), Phocas (547), Todor Zhivkov (1911), Boris III of Bulgaria (1894), Marcian (396), Maximinus Thrax (173), and Simeon I of Bulgaria (864).

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Among WRITERS In Bulgaria

Among writers born in Bulgaria, Aesop ranks 1. After him are Elias Canetti (1905), Saint Naum (830), Hristo Botev (1848), Chernorizets Hrabar (890), Georgi Markov (1929), Ivan Vazov (1850), Gregory Tsamblak (1365), Constantine of Preslav (900), Sabahattin Ali (1907), Angel Wagenstein (1922), and Georgi Sava Rakovski (1821).

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