Fables are short stories which teach a lesson and are often about animals.
The supposed author of these Fables, Aesop, is thought to have lived from 620 to 560 B.C., but his place of birth is uncertain. Whether he came from Ethiopia, Phrygia, Samos, Athens, Sardis or Thrace, we do not know, but some early writers say that he was the slave of a citizen named Iadmon at Samos, in what is now Greece. According to Herodotus, writing about 200 years later, Aesop met his end violently, being thrown over a precipice by the people of Delphi. Exactly how he was given offence is uncertain. Aesop had undoubtedly been freed by his master, Iadmon, for he later lived at the court of King Croesus, and it was here that he met the great Athenian statesman and scholar, Solon.