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Aesop (Latin: Aisopos,) was a legendary philosopher and fable poet of ancient Hellas.
Researchers still argue whether it was a real person or behind this name is a collective image. According to Herodotus, Aesop was a slave and lived about 620-564 BC. The birthplace of the poet-fable writer is considered to be Phrygia, which is located on the peninsula of Asia Minor. Aesop was a slave of the Hellenic Iadamon, who lived on the island of Samos, who later granted the fable writer freedom.
The talented Greek was known not only for his fables, but also for his famous sayings and parables. Aesop's allegorical and moralizing fables are characterized by brevity and wisdom. In them he ridiculed all sorts of human vices - greed, cunning, greed, self-love and envy. The main characters of fables, as a rule, were animals, and the characters of the plot sometimes also acted as people and the gods of Olympus.
Aesop's original works have not survived. The most ancient "fables of Aesop" have reached us in later poetic revisions - (Latin) Phaedrus (I century), (Greek) Babrius (II century) and (Latin) Avianus (early V century). Aesop's work has left a significant trace in European culture, and his aphorisms have become well-known, remaining relevant today. And the hidden subtext of the work is called Aesopian language. Today's readers know these works in the arrangements of Jean de La Fontaine, Ivan Krylov, Gulak-Artemovsky and other fable writers.
Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a British writer and photographer, philosopher and logician, and professor of mathematics.
In 1851 Lewis entered one of the best colleges in Oxford - Christ Church. Showing an extraordinary aptitude for mathematics, soon he was able to give lectures himself, and for the next quarter of a century he was a professor of mathematics at Oxford. In parallel with his studies, the young man began to compose short stories and poems, publishing them under a pseudonym.
And then he wrote the famous "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865) and "Alice in Looking-Glass" (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1871). These books quickly became popular, they were translated into numerous languages, and then repeatedly screened. The prototype of the main character was four-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the new dean of the college where Carroll taught. Lewis Carroll also wrote "The Knotty Story", a humorous poem "Hunting the Snark", "Mathematical Curiosities", "Sylvia and Bruno" and other books. Carroll himself considered his main work a slightly absurd novel-tale "Sylvia and Bruno" (1889-1893).
Under his real name, the writer-mathematician published scientific works on mathematics and logic, he also owns a number of popular books on entertaining mathematics. Lewis Carroll left Oxford only once - in 1867, visiting Russia as part of a delegation of the Anglican Church on the route St. Petersburg-Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod. This was Carroll's only overseas trip, and he described it in his Diary of a Trip to Russia 1867. Lewis Carroll was also a talented chess player and amateur inventor. Photography was also a big part of the writer's life.
