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Aesop, storyteller, in Black history

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From: Tri-State Defender
Date: 20000216
Author:Larsha, William

Larsha, William
Tri-State Defender
02-16-2000
Aesop, storyteller, in Black history

AESOP(E sop), 620-560 B.C., whose talents brought him out of slavery in the
lane of the Greeks was a skillful storyteller - animal stories told to
illustrate human faults. Today, he is would renowned for this classic
fables. Since ancient times, people have enjoyed his tales about the lion
and the mouse, the tortoise and the hare, the goose that laid the golden
egg, and the grasshopper and the ant They were transmitted by oral
tradition before being written about 300 B.C. Aesop's wit and wisdom so
impressed his slave ...

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