Editing Aesop's Fables

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'''''Aesop's Fables''''', or the '''Aesopica''', are a collection of fables credited to [[Aesop]]. During the early 16th century, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Mentor]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] discovered a hidden copy of this book in [[Constantinople]].<ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>

==Summary==
''As mentioned in [[Plato]]'s "{{Wiki|Phaedo}}" dialogue, the [[Greece|Greek]] philosopher [[Socrates]] had a deep fondness for the ancient fables of Aesop, and spent much of the end of his life, during the course of his final imprisonment, turning these classic tales into verse. Displaying a rare talent for ecstatic meter and vivid imagery, Socrates also had the curious habit - noted by contemporaries with much befuddlement - of setting his versions of the fables tens of thousands of years in the past, far earlier than any other version before or since.''

==History==
In 47 BCE, the fables were briefly mentioned by the [[Egypt]]ian philosopher [[Tefibi]] during his conversation with the [[Medjay]] [[Bayek]] of [[Siwa]], when the former intended to write a fable about the latter.<ref name="The Accidental Philosopher">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[The Accidental Philosopher]]</ref>

In 1191, [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] overheard two [[civilian]]s in [[Acre]] briefly mention ''Aesop's Fables''. One of them believed he was quoting the Bible, but the other corrected him by stating that the quote was actually from one of ''Aesop's Fables''.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Pickpocketing (William of Montferrat)]]</ref>

In 1511 Ezio found a lost version of ''Aesop’s Fables'' written in meter by the Ancient Greek philosopher [[Socrates]] hidden in Constantinople by [[Niccolò Polo]].<ref name="ACR" />

In 1721, after suffering the loss of [[Mary Read]], [[Edward Kenway]] experienced a disturbing dream in which, among other things, [[Woodes Rogers]] recited Aesop's fable about the [[eagle]] and the jackdaw.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Delirium]]</ref>

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*''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' {{mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' {{mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' {{Mo}}

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