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 ...

In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing ...

Fiction: Aesop's Fables: The Cruelty of the Gods Carlo Gebler and Gavin Weston New Island, €19.95 Aesop's Fables: The Cruelty of the Gods The linear economy and moral weight that Aesop imbued his ...

Young readers and experienced artisans alike will find much to admire in Wormell's (Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles) richly colored showcase of linocuts, which salute Aesop and wood engraver Thomas Bewick ...

Margie Johnson is an instructional technology specialist at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. Students use handhelds to compose a story with a moral. Writing is a critical area ...

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 ...

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Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...

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 ...