Introduction 

      หากย้อนเวลากลับสู่วัยเด็ก คงไม่มีใครที่ไม่เคยฟังนิทาน.......... โลกของนิทานช่างเต็มไปด้วยความตื่นเต้นแลัน่าค้นหา ความสนุกและจินตนาการ แต่สิ่งที่สำคัญที่พวกเราจะได้รับนั่นก็คือความรู้โดยเฉพาะที่เรียกว่า.........

       นิทานอีสป  : Aesop's Fable

       คำว่า :    กาลครั้งหนึ่ง.............. นานมาแล้ว

                      Once  Upon A  Time ....

                      Long long time ago.......

 แล้วใครกันนะคือผู้ที่เล่าขาน ผู้เป็นเจ้าของตำนาน ที่มักจะแฝงคติสอนใจให้เราได้อ่าน หรือมีคนเล่าให้เราฟัง

 บุคคลผู้นั้นมี นามว่า    อีสป

 แต่ก็ยังมีอีกหลายคนที่ยังไม่รู้จักบุุคลผู้นี้  เราไปลองศึกษาดูดีกว่านะคะ

 Who  was  Aesop  ?    

     Some may say that Aesop is infamous for the life he led over 2000 years ago and mostly for the hundreds

of fables that have been attributed to his name since. Aesop’s fables have reached countless generations

since he is reported to have been alive, and they continue to be a part of the lives of many. Not every fable,

however, that has been linked to Aesop is his own original material. In actuality, there are many fables

attributed to Aesop that, for a variety of reasons, couldn’t possibly be his own. In many ways the unclear

authorship of the fables is at the fault of the storytelling tradition, many details are naturally lost and/or

altered. However the storytelling tradition is also responsible for the survival of the Aesop Fables—if story

telling didn’t exist, neither Aesop nor his fables would have survived. 

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/history.php

Aesop's Life and His Fables.

                Aesop was one of the famous storytellers  who lived in Greece from 620 to 560 B.C.           He was very clever and witty even he was a slave. Hit stories carry moral lessons that called fables.        He  characters  in Aesop's stories  were always  treated  in an abstract or impersonal manner and are never give names.
                He told his stories to many people and they were passed down from generation to generation  by word of mouth. It was over two hundred years later befor all the stories were collected and published.  Today, Aesop's fables can be read in more than 250 languages. They are read by the people all over the   world.

http://store.tkc.go.th/multimedia/webproducer/p01/html/aesop/introduction.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables