Reflective attitude adopted by a Greek satirist (5)
I believe the answer is:
aesop
'a greek satirist' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'reflective attitude adopted by' is the wordplay.
'reflective' is a reversal indicator.
'attitude' becomes 'pose' (I've seen this before).
'adopted' becomes 'a' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'pose' reversed gives 'esop'.
'esop' put after 'a' is 'AESOP'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aesop that I've seen before include "Fable-teller" , "Poses as ancient Greek writer" , "Greek teller of animal tales with a moral" , "very old writer" , "fabulous figure?" .)