From the Greek Αισωπος (Aisopos), which is of unknown meaning. This was the name of a Greek fabulist of the 6th century BC, famous for such tales as 'The Tortoise and the Hare'.
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The slave was Aesop, who was credited as being the author of Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica.
Aesop is the name of the ancient Greek who wrote a group of fables.
Both were entertainers - Homer singing epic legends, Aesop telling fables.
Aesop
620 BC