"The Hare and the Tortoise" Source: Arthur Rackham/Wikimedia Commons, pubic domain. I recently read Dr. Jo Wimpenny's book Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables and simply couldn't put it ...

Puppets come to life to present tales of morality this weekend at North Central College. Jim West Productions present “Aesop’s Fables” at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday at North Central’s College’s Wentz ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and ...

According to “The Life of Aesop,” a text compiled in ancient Greece from a variety of legends, the man whose name is synonymous with the fable was born a slave in Phrygia (in modern-day Turkey) in the ...

NEW YORK — Aesop’s fables are known for teaching moral lessons. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened. It’s the fable about a thirsty crow. The bird comes across a ...

As a kid, one of my favorite books was a collection of Aesop’s Fables. I recall reading it as I walked home from elementary school, barely pausing to look up when I had to cross a street (life was ...