Aesop (c. 550BC -- )  

Legendary Greek fabulist. The fables attributed to him are in all probability a compilation of tales from many sources. The stories were popularized by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st-c AD, and rewritten in sophisticated verse by La Fontaine in 1668.

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 - Aesop by the University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA)