Aesop

Aesop, the famous Greek fabulist, who lived in the later half of the 6th century BC. He is supposed to have been a native of Phrygia and a slave, but to have been afterwards made free. He then visited the court of Cræsus, and, gaining his confidence, was sent on several missions, in one of which, to Delphi, he was thrown over a precipice by the priests, infuriated at his witty blasphemies. We know from Aristophanes that fables bearing the name of Aesop were popular at his time; but the only Greek version of them preserved to us is that of Babrius.