Aesop was an ancient 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 witter called La Fontaine made excellent verse versions of them,which contributed to their continuing popularity.the most famous of Aesop's fables include "the Fox and the Grapes,"tortoise and the have and the ant and the Grasshopper the lessong of the fables remain as true taday as during the time of Aesop