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 ...

BEAVER CREEK – At the hands of master puppeteer Jim West, the fables of Aesop will come to life in Beaver Creek Wednesday as the Vilar Center for the Arts presents West’s production of “Aesop’s Fables ...

One of the renowned Greek storyteller Aesop's 725 fables was called "The Donkey and His Purchaser." In summation, a man wished to purchase a donkey and decided to give the animal a trial to see how ...

Some stories never get old. In fact, in their retelling, they can timelessly spark creativity, fun, and learning, especially when shared as a group. Riverside Elementary School did just that this ...

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I have watched the brouhaha over library books with a jaundiced eye because I detest censorship in just about any form. Oh, I am very much in favor about age-appropriate aisles in a school library but ...

As I was reading some of Aesop’s Fables to one of my grandchildren I was struck by how they resonate even today, 2,500 years after being penned! Aesop’s lessons, while seemingly pretty basic, are ...

Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...

A few years ago, I needed to cite an English translation of an Aesop fable. Obedient to lessons learned in graduate school, I looked for the best. That turned out to be a winding road with distracting ...

To speak of ancient Greece is to speak of the foundation of Western philosophy. The names of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have rolled off the tongues of professors and politicians for millennia.