Who was Aesop?
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- čas přidán 17. 02. 2022
- Who was Aesop? In this "Profiles in History" Segment about the famous storyteller and creator of fables, Aesop, Baba the Storyteller delves into who he was, where he was from, and when he lived, to answer some of your most pressing questions about him.
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my dad always qoutes aesops fables but i really didnt know much about him before this. thanks for sharing :)
Your dad must be a very wise man.
My dad bought me Aesop tales when I was about 10, I like to think, that my gyro was set right by that one book.
Just goes to show you that having confidence in oneself will ensure your freedom. how sounds like an amazing fella. imagine sitting down at the pub and listening to him whilst having a drink
"We wuz Æsop n shit."
A fascinating story well told. What we at Æsop's Teachings find particularly interesting is the idea that the fables might originate from ancient Mesopotamia or even before, thus spanning many millenia of oral tradition.
Great video. I've been interested in Aesop's fables for a long time
Absolutely brilliant narration!!
Informative and well told. Thank you!
It is said in ancient times: "Talk shit, get thrown off a cliff."
I admire your very simple yet compacted information.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for taking the time to watch.
@BABA THE STORY TELLER thank you for your teachings master , with information , knowledge , intellect, respect, gives the mind power
Long after the original aesop passed, more tales were told. Only written in greek and latin hundreds of years later. A period of around 500 years collects the bulk of these works. Possibly three or four authors, scribes, monks could have attributed to the collating of the main corpus.
Marcus Manilius, who wrote the Astronomica, amongst other astrological, mathmatical and poetic works. Was also a monk who could translate greek, latin. He has been thought to be the last modern Aesop. He lived around the first century.
very entertaining ❤
Great story, thanks
This is going to help for my English Literary Project. Thank you!
Please let me know how your project is received. I would love knowing that I helped someone succeed.
My last name is actually Aesop..I learnt most of the stories of him but I never knew that Aesop means Ethiop that is something I learnt..thank you so much about the video
You're welcome
No. Aesop means in Greek the man who sees destiny.
@@Saur-One history connects us all.. we can deny that ... Thanks for that
Thats because Aesop doesn't mean Ethiop. The only source for this is, as the video described, a Byzantine guy that lived over 1200 years after Aesop died. Before that, every description of him details him as straight up ugly and that he was constantly made fun of for it. But yeah there is no description of him being black. I'm not saying that he was not, but saying that his name means Ethiop is straight up not true. Source : I am Greek and a historian.
Can't say how likely it is that the medieval scholar accurately described a guy who'd been dead for 15 centuries.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
@Rustyfork I agree.
But I still wonder, was "Aesop's last fable" what really happened with his death? It's mentioned here that he was thrown over a cliff, and that he called their city trash, but did the Delphians actually throw him over because he was irritating them with countless fables? "Aesop's last fable" didn't have him calling their city trash
See my above reply to Rustyfork, what's your response to that?
@@alvexok5523 Good catch. A whole slew of anecdotes follows a person's last moments, some are erroneous. Some are not. THis might have been a way to put some spice into Aesop's life, similar to Diogenes (the "Plato's man" anecdote is a false one, for example)
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Aesop was an amazing man
I think so as well. Thanks for watching.
I have heard AEsop's fables handed down by mouth for generations and always reflected on their wisdom. By good luck I found a copy of them at the store today and read them like gospel. It amazes me (and it would my whole family) that AEsop was a brother and no one I know knew. That endears him more considering.
I really appreciate you openness and willingness to explore Aesop's world of wisdom.
@@BabatheStoryteller I've wondered for a long time if "Aesop's last fable" was really how Aesop died
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I can't help but think of a classical Neo style character when I think of Aesop. I also can't also help but think of Patrick Henry.
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You made me smile. Thanks.
Thank you if you didn't make this channel I would have failed my english exam
Thank you for the affirmation Cynthia.
Aesop must have been feeling the effects of those fumes that permeated the Oracular structure from the fissures below. Either that, or he was really sick and tired of being politely circumspect all the time.
It's not really any more relevant to me than what curiosity would warrant, but do we know if he was black, or was he called Aesop because of his resemblance to an "Ethiop"? I recall more such famous people being named after a stereotype even though they are not originally from the associated region. I mean in my country we have nicknames like "Dutch" or "Turk" colloquially, especially in villages (I come from a village so I heard this a lot)
Wisdom is fleeting it seems if he used the same tact with the delphians as he did with the king he wouldnt have been thrown overboard.
+A 1 I cannot disagree with you on that point.
It wasn't pub/club is was a engagement party when I was 18 in a hired hall bur didn't like any alcoholic drink
Aesop was Aesop because at the critical moment he could think of trash, floating on water, and not be overawed by tradition.
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Dude Ethiop was a greek word to begin with. It wasn't a greek corruption.
Also Aesop and Ethiop are so far from being similar words.
Also how he look like or where he was from is unknown so it's a bit presumptuous to present information like this as facts.
This video has misinformation.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HIS PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
@realbeautyness25 Have you read it? "Of loathsome aspect ... potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped-a portentous monstrosity," you feel like this descr8bes a black African person? To me, it describes a handicap person. Deff8netly doesn't talk about skin color. I mean if that description is how Africans see themselves, I have a lot of questions now. 🤣😂🤣😂
@realbeautyness25 Have you read it? of loathsome aspect ... potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped-a portentous monstrosity," by this description I see Aesop being more a handcap person than African, it doesnt speak about skin color anywhere.
of loathsome aspect ... potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped-a portentous monstrosity,"
of loathsome aspect ... potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped-a portentous monstrosity,"
Evidence is avery light, I'm.sure I heard he was indo aryan slave from southern Russia
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Does it effin matter what colour he was ffs. Why is everything about race or gender
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Some of his stories morals was either to grossly oversimplified or bad
of course he was black, cleopatra was black, julius caesar was black, everyone was black and built the world, except the africans. lmao
Aesop is Ehiopiyan.
I mean Ethiopiyan
@@HelenA-jv6yn He was not but you are free to believe that if you want
aesop was greek. you should try finding your own in africa and stop appropriating culture. just because you read the word slave doesnt mean its directed to your kind.
white slaves were more common in turkey...just saying.
Was Aesop Jesus?
… or was Jesus Aesop? 🤔
EE-Sop, FFS
KREE-SUSS, FFS!
Æsop
Æ sounds like the a in "Batman has an ass that's half as fast as Flash."
very entertaining ❤