Aesop 
Aesop’s Fables 

’Aesop’s Fables’ is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop’s name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

TRANSLATION
BY
V. S. VERNON JONES

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
G. K. CHESTERTON

(1912 EDITION)