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 Aesop was supposedly born a slave or possibly captured into slavery at an early age; his birthplace might have been Thrace, Phrygia, Samos, Athens, Sardis, or Ethiopia.
As a young man he was taken by a slave trader to what is now Turkey.
When no one would buy him, he was then taken to the island of Samos, where a philosopher called Xanthus purchased him as a servant for his wife.
Later he was owned by Iadmon, a Samian, who gave Aesop his freedom because of Aesop’s marvelous wit and capacious intellect.
According to Plutarch, Aesop served as a shrewd and capable emissary to the wealthy Croesus, king of Lydia, who employed the him in his court, where he dined with philosophers and from which he traveled on ambassadorial missions.
The storyteller reportedly journeyed throughout Greece, doing business for Croesus, and delighting the citizens of many cities with his fables.
Croesus later entrusted Aesop with a fortune in gold and sent him as an emissary to Delphi, with instructions to spread the sum throughout the land.
But the greed and avarice of the citizens disgusted Aesop, and he declined to hand out the money. The citizens then executed Aesop by throwing him down from a cliff-top. [edit]
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