aesop

ÆSOP THE ÆTHIOPS “Esop was so called from his black and swarthy complexion” SOURCE; (J.Nourse, ”The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, Also a Treatise of Prepositions and Other Undeclinable Particles, and an Alphabetical Collection of English Words Derived from the Greek”; 1773) Aesop (620 – 564 B.C.) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables... Genetic distances are closer between Greeks and Ethiopian / Sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean group... SOURCE; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11260506