# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aesop
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:37:38.527Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/aesop"
name: "Aesop"
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description: "A Greek storyteller from the 6th century BCE who may never have existed, yet whose name stuck to a vast body of animal fables that shaped moral instruction across two and a half millennia."
tagline: "Ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aesop_pushkin01.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-620"
deathDate: "-564"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Scattered ancient references place Aesop around 620–564 BCE, but no writings by him survive and his existence remains unclear. The Aesop Romance, an ancient literary work, presents him as a strikingly ugly slave who won freedom through cleverness and rose to advise kings and city-states — a biography probably more fiction than fact. What endured was the tradition: fables featuring anthropomorphic animals gathered under his name across centuries and languages. Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch all mentioned him, cementing the association. The tales outlasted their teller, real or invented, and the storytelling tradition attributed to Aesop continues today.