“The nest of mice lived in an empty old house, bothering nobody. One day a cat climbed through a broken window and got into the kitchen. ‘I say . . . ‘Paradise.’ Snap, snap, snap, the cat went to work ...

It never hurts to repeat the truth, as a newspaper editor of my acquaintance once observed. It especially doesn’t hurt — to put a finer point on it — to repeat a collection of truths that have been ...

Chances are that at some point in your life you have run across Aesop’s Fables. Even if no one read you the Hare and the Tortoise as a child, a family member or teacher will have mentioned the Boy who ...

“What goes around comes around,” the triumphant Wolf says sneeringly to the Fox. This may not be Aesop’s wording, but it succinctly captures his message. It also neatly describes the action at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespearean idioms? Biblical axioms? Nope. These are allegorical life lessons told in Aesop’s sixth century BCE fables “The ...

Willis Regier has discovered that English language translations and translators of Aesop's fables have had a colourful history. One of the translators brought the printing press to England and another ...