Aesop was an ancien Greek writer of fables. according to the early historian, he was a slave who lived in Somos in the Gth century B.C. and eventually was freed by his master. Aesop's fables may have only retold them skillfully and ensured their popularity. Aesop's fables were frist written down in 300 B.C., long after he had died. in the 1600s, a French witer called La Fontaine made excellent verse virsions of them,which contributed to their continuing popularity.