Fables
A fable is a short story which conveys a moral, often with animals as the characters. Probably the best known of all fable writers is Aesop, a storyteller who lived in Greece around 600 BCE. At that time the stories were passed on orally and it was not until several centuries later that they were written down, by which time probably many other fables not written by Aesop himself were attributed to him.
