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Thanks and happy listening. A hair one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the tortoise, who replied, laughing,

Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The hare, believing her assertion to be

simply impossible, assented to the proposal, and they agreed that the fox should choose the course

and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the

race, the two started together. The tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a

slow but steady pace, straight to the end of the course. The hair lying down by the wayside

fell fast asleep. At last, waking up and moving as fast as he could, he saw the tortoise had reached the

goal and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race. Oh, hi, hello, nerds. This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby. And I'm your host, Liv, here with, well, like, childhood, I guess. I certainly associate Esop's fables with my childhood, and I've been keen to talk about them on the podcast for ages now, and so finally here we are.

Honestly, for the longest time I never even knew, or maybe just never made the connection or paid attention,

that some of my favorite stories from childhood were actually ancient Greek stories.

I had no idea that one of the first authors I ever read by myself was an ancient Greek from the

archaic period, and that's not even half of what makes him so cool. And yet that's exactly

how my own reading started. Are we surprised by how things went for me? Hardly. Though he's

famous now for children's fables, ESOP was very likely from the archaic period of ancient Greece and not

writing for children at all. Probably around the 6th century is when he was from, making his legacy

honestly, like, more similar to the concept of like Homer than one might imagine. And really,

like, I mean, how incredibly cool is that? I can't quite believe that it took me this long to talk about him.

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