You’ve no doubt heard Aesop’s famous fables a few times: The story of the tortoise and the hare, which teaches us that “slow and steady wins the race,” or the tale of the boy who cried wolf, which ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Orthodox Church has never categorically rejected pre-Christian thought. On the contrary, it subjected it to discernment, ...

WASHINGTON — Aesop was a writer, possibly of African origin, who lived more than 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. But although he's long gone, his famous fables — or those credited to him, if not ...

Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. Having encountered your standard-issue tortoise and hare, boy who cried wolf, town mouse and country mouse, et al.

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 ...