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Some say he was a slave who so delighted his master with his moral stories that Aesop was given his freedom. The Greeks were like that. They rewarded talent. That old legend could very well be true.
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Aesop was born in the year 620 BC in Greece. He was born a slave. His first master was Xanthus and his second master was Jadmon. Aesop was granted his freedom by Jadmon. After gaining his freedom Aesop raised his status from slavery to one of high respect. He traveled through many countries.
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This is a collection of tales from the Greek story teller, Aesop. Aesop was a slave in ancient Greece. He was a keen observer of both animals and people. Most of the characters in his stories are animals, some of which take on human characteristic and are personified in ways of speech and emotions. However, the majority of his character retain their animalistic qualities; tortoise are slow, hares are quick, tigers eat bird, etc. Aesop uses these qualities and natural tendencies of animals to focus on human traits and wisdom.
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Little is known about the ancient Greek writer Aesop (c. 620 B.C.E. - c. 560 B.C.E.), whose stories of clever animals and foolish humans are considered Western civilization's first morality tales. He was said to have been a slave who earned his freedom through his storytelling and went on to serve as advisor to a king. Both his name and the animist tone of his tales have led some scholars to believe he may have been Ethiopian in origin.
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Nothing is known of Aesop's early life. However, in the Histories of Herodotus, who wrote during the later half of the fifth century BC, it says that he lived during the time of the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis of the sixth century BC. And that he was connected to the island of Samos. Herodotus ... gives evidence that he may have been a slave or a relative of a Samian citizen called Iadmon,
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Nothing was known about Aesop from credible records. The tradition was that he was at one point freed from slavery and that he eventually died at the hands of Delphians. In fact, the obscurity shrouding his life has led some scholars to deny his existence altogether.
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