Today, Aesop is best known as the genius behind the popular children’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. ‘Slow and steady will win the race.’ Yet in the classical world, Aesop was a huge deal in his own right. Often cast alongside a cluster of early Greek thinkers, the ‘Seven Sages’, Aesop was seen as a divine repository of wit and wisdom.1
When I was set…
