Who is the legendary author of a collection of moral tales featuring animal characters like the tortoise and the hare, said to have been a slave on Samos in the 6th century BCE?

• A Aesop ✓
• B Phaedrus
• C Babrius
• D La Fontaine

Aesop, said to have been a slave on Samos in the 6th century BCE, is the legendary author of fables such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' that remain widely told.