Editing Fable (section)

==Classic==
*[[Aesop]] (mid-6th century [[BCE]]), author/s of ''[[Aesop's Fables]]''
*[[Vishnu Sarma]] ({{Circa|200 BCE}}), author of the [[anthropomorphic]] political treatise and fable collection, the ''[[Panchatantra]]''
*[[Bidpai]] ({{Circa|200 BCE}}), author of [[Sanskrit]] ([[Hindu]]) and [[Pali]] ([[Buddhist]]) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from [[Jataka tales]]
*[[Syntipas]] ({{Circa|100 BCE}}), [[India]]n [[philosopher]], reputed author of a collection of tales known in [[Europe]] as ''[[Seven Wise Masters|The Story of the Seven Wise Masters]]''
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]] (Hyginus, [[Latin]] author, native of [[Spain]] or [[Alexandria]], {{Circa|64 BCE}} – 17 CE), author of the ''Fabulae''
*[[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]] (15 BCE – 50 CE), [[Roman Republic|Roman]] fabulist, by birth a [[Ancient Macedonians|Macedonian]]
*[[Nizami Ganjavi]] ([[Persia]]n, 1141–1209)
*[[Walter of England]] (12th century), [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] poet, published ''Aesop's Fables'' in [[distich]]s {{Circa|1175}}
*[[Marie de France]] (12th century)
*[[Rumi|Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī]] ([[Persia]]n, 1207–1273)
*[[Vardan Aygektsi]] (died 1250), Armenian priest and fabulist
*[[Berechiah ha-Nakdan]] (Berechiah the Punctuator, or [[Linguist|Grammarian]], 13th century), author of [[Jewish]] fables adapted from [[Aesop]]'s Fables
*[[Robert Henryson]] ([[Scotland|Scottish]], 15th century), author of ''[[The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian]]''
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[Italy|Italian]], 1452–1519)
*[[Biernat of Lublin]] ([[Poland|Polish]], 1465? &ndash; after 1529)
*[[Jean de La Fontaine]] ([[France|French]], 1621–1695)
*[[Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani]] ([[Georgia (country)|Georgian]], 1658–1725), author of [[A Book of Wisdom and Lies|''The Book of Wisdom and Lies'']]
*[[Bernard de Mandeville]] ([[England|English]], 1670–1733), author of ''[[The Fable of the Bees]]''
*[[John Gay]] ([[England|English]], 1685–1732)
*[[Christian Fürchtegott Gellert]] ([[Germany|German]], 1715–1769)
*[[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] ([[Germany|German]], 1729–1781)
*[[Ignacy Krasicki]] ([[Poland|Polish]], 1735–1801), author of ''[[Fables and Parables]]'' (1779) and ''New Fables'' (published 1802)
*[[Dositej Obradović]] ([[Serbia]]n, 1739–1811)
*[[Félix María de Samaniego]] ([[Spain|Spanish]], 1745–1801), best known for "The Ant and the Cicade"
*[[Tomás de Iriarte]] ([[Spain|Spanish]], 1750–91)
*[[Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]], ([[France|French]], 1755–94), author of ''Fables'' (published 1802)
*[[Ivan Dmitriev]] ([[Russia]], 1760–1837)
*[[Ivan Krylov]] ([[Russia]]n, 1769–1844)
*[[Hans Christian Andersen]] ([[Denmark|Danish]], 1805–1875)