View About the Database Narrative & Analysis Visit HistoryofScience.com » « back to the full timeline The Fables of Phaedrus (Circa 850) The Roman fabulist Phaedrus  (c. 15 BCE- 50CE), probably a Thracian slave born in Pydna of Macedonia (now Greece), lived in the reigns of  Caesar Augustus , Tiberius, Caligula