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| Aesop |
According
to legend, Aesop was a Greek author of fables in ladybird which animals acted
like people. Each story taught a lesson.
Perhaps
you know the stories about the goose that laid the golden egg, the lion and the
mouse, or the tortoise and the hare.
According
to legend, these and many other well-loved fables were told by a marvelous
storyteller named Aesop (pronounced EE sop). Aesop
is supposed to have lived long ago in Greece.
Not
much is known about Aesop’s life.
Tradition says that he was once a slave, ugly and deformed in body. But he had a brilliant mind, and he enjoyed
telling fables in which animals acted and talked like human beings. Each fable was a short story made up to teach
people a lesson about life. Aesop’s
wisdom so impressed his master that he was freed.
In
Aesop’s fables, moral lessons and bits of wisdom are taught in such a
delightful way that they have been handed down from generation to
generation. Aesop’s many fables have
been translated into almost every language in the world. -
Dick
Rogers
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