Aesop (Frontispiece to Caxton's Fables of Aesop) - Aesop, known only for the fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Ancient Greece. The various collections that go under the name of Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons. 固opFoto