When was aesop freed from slavery

In this story, a rabbit challenges a tortoise to a race. The rabbit is sure of its victory and as a result, depending on the version of the story, in some way completes the race slower than the turtle. Often, the hare takes a nap or takes too many breaks. The persistent tortoise, despite being slower, wins because it persevered. It is thought by modern writers that he may have been of African origin, it is said that his name is likely derived from "Aethiopian", a word used by the Greeks to refer mostly to dark skinned people of the African interior and that the stories are full of animals present in Africa, many of the creatures being quite foreign to Greece and Europe.

Aesop was also briefly mentioned in the classic Egyptian myth, "The Girl and the Rose-Red Slippers", considered by many to be history's first Cinderella story. In the myth, the freed slave Rhodopis mentions that a slave named Aesop told her many entrancing stories and fables while they were slaves on the island of Samos. Most will remember Aesop's story of "The Ants and the Grasshopper" as a moral tale of an idle grasshopper playing and being generally worthless while the ants toil doggedly, until a season when food is scarce and the grasshopper realizes that the prepared ants had the right attitude about life all along.

Take another look at this story. Unlike the cartoony kiddie books that start with the backstory, Aesop confronts us immediately with "a cold, frosty day" and "A grasshopper, half-dead with hunger" who "asked the ants for a morsel to save his life. And what are the consequences? Not simply a bitter lesson learned, but apparently starvation! Functional Functional.

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How clever, his answer, thought the master. King Croesus will forever reward me for the services of this witty man. So Aesop was brought to King Croesus, the richest of all kings. He immediately liked Aesop and his fables. But Aesop always presented a story that outsmarted them.