According to the majority of scholars, the Epic of Gilgamesh. He recovered the knowledge of all the times before the Flood. He journeyed beyond the distant, he journeyed beyond exhaustion, And then carved his story on stone . Most of these works were to tell epics of legendary kings or heroes, the life of the gods and godesses or to teach wisdom under the guise of fables to help the common man to understand.
Fables appear independently in ancient Indian and Mediterranean cultures.
Learn a different kind of wisdom and perhaps glimpse the soul of that enigmatic people. Many fabliaux carry mock morals, inviting comparison with the didactic fables. Realistic in tone, they paint instructive pictures of everyday life in medieval France. After the 13th century, when the majority were composed, they yielded in importance to the farces, bequeathing a fund of anecdotes to later writers such as Chaucer and Boccaccio.