Three Hundred AEsop's Fables - 9781329917156

AEsop] was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and AEsop, like the philosophers Phaedo Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown...

• | Author: George Fyler Townsend, Translator
• | Publisher: lulu.com
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1329917154
• | ISBN-13: 9781329917156