The original "Aesop's Fables" film series, also known as "Aesop's Film Fables," was produced by the Van Beuren Corporation in the late 1920s. It included animated shorts that adapted the classic ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Sour grapes. Nature will out. The goose that laid the golden egg. The lessons embedded in Aesop’s Fables, the animal-rich tales that supposedly originated with an ancient Greek slave, are so embedded ...

"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 ...

In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published online today (06 August) in the journal ...