Biography of Aesop

Aesop – father called on his behalf "Aesopian" fable. According to ancient legend, he lived around the middle of the VI. BC Chr., was a slave samostsa Iadmona and died a violent death at Delphi. Later he was called home to Asia Minor, which is plausible because it is consistent with the character of its name. His death in Delphi, was decorated with the legend, which can be recovered by Herodotus and Aristophanes, combining them with more recent evidence. According to this legend, E., being at Delphi, its slander filed against a number of citizens, and they decided to punish him. To do this, they kidnapped a golden cup from the temple utensils, and secretly put it in the knapsack E. and then raised the alarm, had been ordered to search the pilgrims, the bowl was found in IE, and he, like svyatotatets was stoned. After many years, followed by the miraculous. Detection of innocence E.; descendants of his murderers were forced to pay the Viru, for obtaining which was a grandson of Iadmona, who was his master. The historic core of the legend is for Delphi, that the focus of the poetry of the VI., To Aesopian fable: as initially hostile, and it eventually became friendly, ie, Delphi, thought it best to take under his wing, this popular and influential type of narrative poetry. – With regard to the most Aesopian fables, then under that name meant the old one in which actors were dumb animals and other creatures and objects. The other kind was referred to. sybaritic fable, in which people acted, in addition, there were fables Libyan, Egyptian, Cypriot, Carian, Cilicia. Named areas all lie on the outskirts of the (western, southern, eastern) of peace with the Greek, and this is related to the often unnoticed fact that the works of folk literature is better preserved and used to attract attention just on the outskirts, where the antagonism with other nationalities makes a cherished treasure national tradition. According to this we are and Phrygians E. will have to see just a collector and pereskazchika Greek fables, his popularity was the reason that every fable "ezopicheskogo" character was may be of him. There is reason to suppose that in a time of Aristophanes (end of V in.) Athens was known for writing a collection of Aesop's fables, which taught children in school, "you're ignorant and lazy, even E. has not learned!" Says Aristophanes, one functioning face. They were prosaic paraphrases, without any decoration. Recognition of E. Delfami was for poets indirect appeal to the poetic literature of this type of popular literature abandoned; respond to it Socrates, under the influence mystical moods in which he, as the elect of Delphian Apollo, has spent the past days of my life. Alterations of Socrates were not preserved for posterity; alleged excerpts from them fake. Body of Aesop's fables in prose was at the end of the IV. Dimitri Falersky. To us from ancient remains are free poetic alterations Babri (III century. By Robert Chr.) Greek, Phaedra (I in. By Robert Chr.) Aviena and (IV century. By Robert Chr.) – In latin LANG .; same dry prose retellings, titled in manuscript as "Aesop's fables, all compiled in the Middle Ages. – Interest to fables E. tolerated and on his person; for want of accurate information about it resorted to the legend. Phrygian talker, allegorically reviled powerful, it is natural to man grumpy and angry at the kind of Homeric Fersita and, therefore, a portrait Fersita detail picture of Homer, was moved to E. He is represented by a hooked, lame, with the face of a monkey – in a word, in all respects ugly and the opposite of the divine beauty of Apollo, so he was depicted in the sculpture, by the way – including an interesting statue, which is before us survived. In the Middle Ages was composed in Byzantium anecdotal biography of E., which has long taken to be a source of reliable information about him. E. presented here a slave for peanuts sold from hand to hand, always wrong, and fellow slaves, and overseers, and masters, but who could successfully take revenge on their oppressors. This biography not only it does not leak out of a genuine tradition of E. – she did not even Greek origin. Its source – the Jewish story of the wise Aqir. belonging to the cycle of legends, which was surrounded by later Jewish identity of King Solomon.The intermediary link between this story and biography of the Byzantine E. has not yet been found, the story itself is known mainly from the Ancient alterations. Biography of E. has received wide popularity and was soon translated into many languages, among others, in Bulgarian, Turkish and Romanian.