They’re quite dark, all about people betraying you. They’re lessons to watch out for vanity, betrayal, they’re the fundamentals of human behaviour. Brakes are quite a moral band, immoral in a lot of ...

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 ...

Aesop is big this publishing year. There are at least three new collections, several stand-alone fables, and more coming along in 2001. Why all the renewed interest? One reason is publishers' penchant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lessons and tales of “Aesop’s Fables” will be brought to life at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Schorr Family Firehouse Stage in Johnson City, when Robert Rogers Puppet Company shares ...

Like many of you, I have been spending a lot of time during the past week thinking about Aesop’s Fables. If your days have not been spent in deep contemplation of those pithy morality tales from ...

- There was no high-speed car chase, but there was a bit of behind-the-scenes drama before a recent Staten Island OutLOUD event. Beth Gorrie, director of the group, arrived at Aesop Park on July 16 ...

NEW YORK — From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop’s fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study ...

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 ...