传说伊索生活在公元前6世纪前半期,是一个奴隶,因其聪明才智得到主人的赏识而被释放为自由民。伊索善于讲故事,或以自己为主人公说事论理,或假托人物阐述世事,或以拟人手法塑造自然物为故事主人公,说明道理,告诫教训。因为故事中常常带有讽刺或劝诫之意,触怒了奴隶主,后被奴隶 Legend has it that Aesop lived in the first half of the sixth century BC and was a slave. He was released as a free man because his intelligence was appreciated by his master. Aeso is good at telling stories, or arguing with himself as the subject of the master, or assuming the characters expounding the world, or as the protagonist of the story-telling natural objects, explaining the truth and admonishing the lesson. Because the stories often have irony or exhortation, they angered the slave owners and were slaves.