ancient philosopher and fabulist Aesop, whose biography is presented in the writings of Herodotus, - the figure is still little known.Was there such a person, no one can say with certainty.
Was there a servant who knows how to write?
In the writings of Herodotus states that the ancient fabulist lived in the 6th century BC and was the slave of a Iadmona, who lived on the island of Samos in the times of the Egyptian king Amasis.The first owner of the ancient philosopher was Xanthos, but these dubious facts as extracted from the works of Herodotus.According to some sources, in the age of Aristophanes in schools taught Aesop's Fables, confirmation of this is a quote from the statement of the actor: "You are ignorant and lazy!Even Aesop never learned! "Historians studying with interest Aesop's personality traits, as servants of the poor at the time did not know how to write, they were not allowed to express their opinion at all about something else.There is reason to believe that the collection of Aesop's fables included the works of many generations and different eras.
Ancient pereskazchiki
first pereskazchikami Aesop's fables were Demetrius Phaleron - 3rd century BC, air - 4th century BCAround 200 BC, the Babri outlined Aesop's fables in Greek poetry.The books were a slave crippled and hunchbacked, with a terrible and ugly face of a monkey.Extant statue of a slave visually indicates how ugly was Aesop.Biography sage for many years caused a lot of questions from fans of old.In the Renaissance, it was first put into question the existence of a slave named Aesop.Biography fabulist from that moment became a semi-mythical.Only in the 20th century, scientists began to lean to the general opinion that the identity of Aesop had its historical prototype.But in contrast to the Middle Ages and modernity, ancient ancestors had no doubt that once there was really a talented servant.
fictional anecdote
In Byzantium in the Middle Ages, the fictional anecdotal story of Aesop's fables became the basis of the biography.It said that the servant is constantly passed from hand to hand for a pittance.Because of the constant bullying companions, supervisors and owners of Aesop became touchy and vindictive.But these facts were not only fiction, they do not even comply with the Greek version of the biography of Aesop.
Wisdom Aesop
We can judge it by wise and instructive fables, which are involved in staging the world's leading theaters.Collection of Aesop's fables has 426 short instructive stories in which the main role is given to the relationship of animals.Anyone reading the fable, realizes that the story about the animals directly related to the human character and morals.
instructive heritage
important for us that Aesop, whose biography is almost unknown to anyone, leave an inheritance wonderful collection of fables.Even if we assume that a wise old man single-handedly wrote the stories, and creation was the result of creativity of different people from different generations, it is difficult to overestimate the writings of antiquity.In Soviet times, it was given a television production of "Aesop".Biography slave runs a red line across the teleplay story, it reflects the wisdom of the poor slave, uttering the phrase "Have a drink sea Xanthos!" Do not know what it was about - read the book of the wise servant, it is very interesting!Collection of Aesop's fables were translated into Russian in 1968.It includes remarkable and instructive stories of "The Eagle and the Fox", "Quail and Chicken," "The Wolf and the Lamb" and etc.
