he had a thing for animals if you know what I mean..
Children are unaware they are being taught a lesson when the characters are animals. Or maybe Aesop was crazy and thought that animals were humans. Aesop founded PETA. The end.
the dudes name is (or wuz) Aesop (i think)
they were animals and they could talk.
Offen = open "e.g. Es ist offen -> It is open"
They were usually animals.
Aesop used animals as characters to convey moral lessons, often involving anthropomorphism. His fables typically involved a simple narrative structure with a clear moral at the end. Aesop also used irony and allegory to emphasize the moral messages in his fables.
He was afraid of misquoting people so he confined himself to animals.
Aesop is important because he wrote great fables.
Bernard Offen was born in 1929.
Not that offen now that there are cash registers and computers to do it for them.
Animals. The fables were populated by different animals in each tale. He defined the genre.
Not all of Aesop's stories or fables used animals instead of people. Animals are commonly used in fables so that people could read the story, enjoy it, and learn from it without envisioning themselves or someone else in the roles. This was a non threatening strategy to teach lessons without making the reader fearful of bad people.