Show tle the by john harvey furbay phd copyright I 1 by cubitt lodger jno inc NOT SOS the fables which are now extant in prose under aesoph name are all spurious aesop is only a mythical figure according to many historians to rians he was supposed to have lived about the sixth century B C the tables fables which tradition has attached to his name were vers versifier versified versi fied ined by gabrius about the first or second century A D it is doubtful il if there were ever any written fables bearing any such name as aesop none is known today the monk daimus Pla nudes collected a great number of the traditional tales purporting to be those of aesop in the fourteenth century and in the preface he described aesop as a monster deformed and ugly a notion without foundation service |