Image Title:
Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BCE)
Note:
Example of a coin image from ancient Delphi thought by one antiquarian to represent Aesop. “. . . a Negro slave “flat-nosed . . .with lips, thick and pendulous and a black skin from which he contracted his name (Esop being the same with Ethiop).” Read More and Also here
Source:
Panofka, Theodor. 1849. Antikenkranz zum fünften Berliner Winckelmannsfest. Berlin: Trautwein in Komm. Book at Heidelberger Historische Bestände - Digital
Subject:
Slavery - Historical Figures - History Maker - Coin - Greek - African - Delphi
Date:
1849
Rights:
Public Domain
Image:
SA-SLAVHF-43
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