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Aísōpos (Greek Αἴσωπος, shortened toAesop, Esop(e), or Isope in modern English) was a slave, later freedman, living somewhere in Asia Minor in the sixth century BC. If, that is, he existed at all.

Aesop is best-known nowadays as the writer of theBeast Fables calledAesop's Fables... even though none of Aesop's writings have survived to the present day.

What we know about Aesop (assuming he was an actual person) comes fromThe Aesop Romance, a folk tale that has grown in the telling. Quoting fromThe Other Wiki: "InThe Aesop Romance, Aesop is a slave of Phrygian origin on the island of Samos, and extremely ugly. At first he lacks the power of speech, but after showing kindness to a priestess ofIsis, is granted by the goddess not only speech but a gift for clever storytelling, which he uses alternately to assist and confound his master, Xanthus, embarrassing the philosopher in front of his students and even sleeping with his wife. After interpreting a portent for the people of Samos, Aesop is given his freedom and acts as an emissary between the Samians and King Croesus. Later he travels to the courts of Lycurgus of Babylon and Nectanabo of Egypt – both imaginary rulers – in a section that appears to borrow heavily from the romance ofAhiqar. The story ends with Aesop's journey to Delphi, where he angers the citizens by telling insulting fables, is sentenced to death and, after cursing the people of Delphi, is forced to jump to his death."

If you're looking for the supertrope about "the moral of the story", seeAn Aesop.

• An Aesop
  • Accidental Aesop
  • Aesop Amnesia
  • Aesop Collateral Damage
  • Aesop Ju Jitsu
  • Aesoptinum
  • Alternate Aesop Interpretation
  • Broken Aesop
  • Captain Obvious Aesop
  • Clueless Aesop
  • Double Aesop
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop
  • Fantastic Aesop
  • Gay Aesop
  • Green Aesop
  • Long-Lost Uncle Aesop
  • Lost Aesop
  • Monster of the Aesop
  • Space Whale Aesop
  • Spoof Aesop
  • Stock Aesops
  • Subverted Suspicion Aesop
  • Trend Aesop

• Rags to Riches: Slave to sage/storyteller.

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Western Animation

• "Aesop and Son", one of the rotating segments inRocky and Bullwinkle, logically enough had Aesop (and his son, "Junior") appear in the framing device for the fables.

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