# The Goatherd — Aesop's Fables character guide

> The Goatherd in Aesop's Fables by Aesop.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** The Goatherd, the Goatherd, A Goatherd

**First appearance:** 0283-the-goatherd-and-the-wild-goats

## Who they are

A tender of goats whose trust in his flock is tested when a wolf slips in wearing borrowed wool.

## In the story

### [The Goatherd and the Goat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-goatherd-and-the-goat)

The goatherd loses his temper and injures the goat, then futilely tries to conceal his deed.

### [The Goatherd and the Wild Goats](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fables_se/chapters/the-goatherd-and-the-wild-goats)

Tends his goats and tries to keep Wild Goats by overfeeding them, but loses them due to his own strategy.

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