Fable - Classic Fabulists

Classic Fabulists

  • Aesop (mid-6th century BCE), author of Aesop's Fables.
  • Vishnu Sarma (ca. 200 BCE), author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection, the Panchatantra.
  • Bidpai (ca. 200 BCE), author of Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.
  • Syntipas (ca. 100 BCE), Indian philosopher, reputed author of a collection of tales known in Europe as The Story of the Seven Wise Masters.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus (Hyginus, Latin author, native of Spain or Alexandria, ca. 64 BCE – 17 CE), author of Fabulae.
  • Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE), Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian.
  • Walter of England c. 1175
  • Marie de France (12th century).
  • Vardan Aygektsi (died 1250), Armenian priest and fabulist
  • Berechiah ha-Nakdan (Berechiah the Punctuator, or Grammarian, 13th century), author of Jewish fables adapted from Aesop's Fables.
  • Robert Henryson (Scottish, 15th century), author of The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.
  • Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519).
  • Biernat of Lublin (Polish, 1465? – after 1529).
  • Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621–95).
  • Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Georgian, 1658–1725).
  • Bernard de Mandeville (English, 1670–1733), author of The Fable of the Bees.
  • John Gay (English, 1685–1732).
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German, 1729–81).
  • Ignacy Krasicki (Polish, 1735–1801), author of Fables and Parables (1779) and New Fables (published 1802)
  • Dositej Obradović (Serbian, 1742–1811)
  • Félix María de Samaniego (Spanish, 1745–1801), best known for "The Ant and the Cicade"
  • Tomás de Iriarte (Spanish, 1750–91)
  • Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, (French, 1755–94), author of Fables (published 1802)
  • Ivan Krylov (Russian, 1769–1844)
  • Hans Christian Andersen (Danish, 1805–75)

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