What was Aesop known for writing?
Aesop drama "The Death of Aesop," portrays him as an Ethiopian. In 1971, Bill Cosby played Aesop in the TV production "Aesop's Fables". The musical "Aesop's Fables" by British playwright Peter Terson was first produced in 1983. In 2010, the play was staged at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, with Mhlekahi Mosiea as Aesop. Aesop Aesop ( ; , ""; c. 620 – 564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as "Aesop's Fables". Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to
Aesop Aesop His Slave"), "an anonymous work of Greek popular literature composed around the second century of our era ... Like "The Alexander Romance", "The Aesop Romance" became a folkbook, a work that belonged to no one, and the occasional writer felt free to modify as it might suit him." Multiple, sometimes contradictory, versions of this work exist. The earliest known version was probably composed in the 1st century CE, but the story may have circulated in different versions for centuries before it was committed to writing, and certain elements can be shown to originate in the 4th century BCE. Scholars