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In four occasions Aesop was wrongly accused of a crime

AESOP 625-560 B.C. No author of Greek antiquity has been more read, translated, adapted, embellished, printed, and illustrated than Aesop. According to Herodotus (Histories, 2.134-135), Aesop was a slave who won his freedom by telling fables. Aesop is mentioned by Aristotle, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, Plato, Callimachus, Lucian, Philostratus,...