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Aesop
Aesop
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Aesop is the figure traditionally credited as the originator of the Greek fable tradition, the short animal tales carrying a moral that bear his name. Ancient sources, including Herodotus, place him in the 6th century BCE and describe him as a slave on the island of Samos who later won his freedom. Beyond these traditions little can be securely established, and the colorful biographical legends about his appearance, travels, and death are later folklore. The fables attributed to him circulated and grew for centuries; the surviving collections are compilations from many hands rather than his own writing.
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About Delphi
Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in Phocis, central Greece, was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo and was regarded as the religious center of the Greek world. The biographer and Platonist philosopher Plutarch served for many years as a priest at the Delphic sanctuary, and several of his essays concern the oracle. Tradition connects the fabulist Aesop with a death at Delphi.