Plutarch's Lives

Aesop

Family: Greek · Role: fabulist · First appears: Solon

Solon

  • patron: Croesus “Aesop, who wrote the fables, being then at Sardis upon Croesus's invitation, and very much esteemed”
  • with Pataecus (Pataecus claimed to possess Aesop's soul.) “This Hermippus relates, from Pataecus, who boasted that he had Aesop's soul”

Cicero

  • pupil: Cicero “and sometimes of Aesop the tragedian”

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