Aesop

Aesop is presented by ancient tradition as a slave of the sixth century BC, Phrygian according to most authors, Thracian according to others, stammering and deformed. Herodotus, the earliest witness, makes him the slave of Iadmon of Samos. Legend has him freed, advising King Croesus, then dying at Delphi, thrown from a rock after the Delphians accused him of having stolen a sacred object. None of this is attested, and his very existence remains doubtful.

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