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By Charles Kanjama
While introducing Aesop’s Fables, G.K. Chesterton comments, “Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the fables, belong not to him but to humanity... The historical Aesop, in so far as he is historical, would seem to have been a Phrygian slave.”
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