Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...

Some stories never get old. In fact, in their retelling, they can timelessly spark creativity, fun, and learning, especially when shared as a group.

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 ...

Carlo Gébler’s book is a wonderful, ... The standard index of Aesop’s fables, by Edwin Perry, lists 997 fables attributed to Aesop, and many hundreds more not attributed to him.

Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables Helen Ward, Chronicle Books. Chronicle Books, $18.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-4450-5 ...

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 ...