AESOP

AESOP (c. 620–564 BC) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. While most scholars seem to accept the idea there was a man named Aesop who wrote most of these fables, there is a body of scholars out there that suggests the fables commonly attributed to Aesop aren't actually his, e.g. some Sumerian proverbs often had the same structure and story as Aesop's fables. Consequently, some scholars suggest he didn't actually write the proverbs. However, the world may never know for sure as Aesop is mentioned in several ancient texts as a storyteller. The first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin was Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 BC–c. AD 50).