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THREE HUNDRED ÆSOP?S FABLES IBD

LULU.COM
02 / 2016
9781329917156
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Sinopsis

'[Æsop] 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 Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown...'