Aesop
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A picture of the 6th-century BC Greek writer Aesop by 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez.
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‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ from Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Charles Bennett, 1857.
By tradition, a writer of Greek fables. According to the historian Herodotus, he lived in the mid-6th century BC and was a slave. The fables that are ascribed to him were collected at a later date and are anecdotal stories using animal characters to illustrate moral or satirical points.
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