No Children’s Tale
Aesop gave us hare a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the lion’s share, the hare versus the tortoise, the playful grasshopper, sour grapes, squeaky wheel, and much more. [...] Usually considered children’s literature, the fables have been loved by adults as luminous as Aristotle, Erasmus, and Leonardo. Plutarch included Aesop in his gathering of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece. As Socrates awaited execution, he versified Aesop. John Lydgate translated seven Aesop fables into Middle English, Martin Luther translated 20 into German, and Marie de France translated 103 into French. But what do we know of him? [LINK]
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