Aisopos - Aisopos (English spelling)

Japanese: アイソポス - あいそぽす(英語表記)Aisopos
Aisopos - Aisopos (English spelling)

Dates of birth and death unknown. He is believed to be the author of the collection of fables known as Aesop's Fables. "Aesop" is the English pronunciation of Aesop's name. Although the exact details of his life are unknown, according to legend he was active in Greece in the first half of the 6th century BC. He is said to have been from Samos or to have been a Phrygian. According to Herodotus, he was a slave of the Samian Eadmon. He is famous for being framed for a crime he did not commit and executed by the people of Delphi. In quotations of Aesop's stories from the 5th century BC, the stories are told in connection with the deeds of Aesop himself. From this, it seems likely that a biography detailing his life's deeds was published early in the creation of Aesop's Fables (around the end of the 6th century BC), and Aesop appeared as the narrator of the fables included in it.

[Takao Hashimoto]

[References] | Aesop's Fables

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

生没年不詳。『イソップ物語』として知られる寓話(ぐうわ)集の作者とされている。「イソップ」はアイソポスの英語読み。生涯については正確な点は不明であるが伝承によれば紀元前6世紀前半ギリシアで活躍した。サモスの出身ともフリギア人ともいわれている。ヘロドトスによれば、サモスの人イアドモンの奴隷であった。デルフォイの人々から無実の罪を着せられ刑死した話は有名である。前5世紀のアイソポスの物語の引用例では、物語がアイソポス本人の事跡とのつながりのうえで語られている。これからみると『イソップ物語』成立初期の段階(前6世紀末ごろ)で生涯の事跡を述べた伝記が掲げられ、そのなかに収められた寓話の語り手としてアイソポスが登場していたのであろう。

[橋本隆夫]

[参照項目] | イソップ物語

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