Aesop Fables - The Dog and the Cook :br Those who enter through the backdoor might just be thrown out of the window. This moral unravels beautifully with a street dog and a pet dog from a good home.br br Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.