Aesop's Fables : A New Revised Version

By Weir, Harrison

Book Id: WPLBN0000580093
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 7,132,684 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Aesop's Fables : A New Revised Version
Author:	Weir, Harrison
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: LIFE OF AESOP. The Life and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Aesop. Although the honor thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Aesop. He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of who gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit.