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Aesop is the name of the ancient Greek who wrote a group of fables.
Those fables were written by Aesop.
Parables have human characters while fables have animal characters.
He wrote fables.
Aesop wrote many, many fables. These were moral stories that featured animal characters. Some examples include 'Country Mouse and City Mouse,' 'The Tortoise and the Hare,' and 'The Fox and the Crow.'
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Aesop wrote many fables that are okay for children to read. Collections of his fables can be bought quite cheaply online.
Aesop's fables or Babrius Babrius may have written a collection of fables, which was discovered in the 19th century) based on Aesop's fables, only in Greek verse. Babrius may have been a Hellenistic Roman.
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Shakespeare is not famous for have been written fables, but he did. He wrote one intitled "The tree and the reed".
No one knows. Of course Aesop is famous for popularising fables. More than likely the first fables were spoken, rather than wrote down.