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 ...

A fox does not fall for the lion’s trick, noticing that tracks lead into the lion’s den but not out again. Instead, it gets the lion to closeits eyes, then steals the sack. The fox frees the ...

In the final session of our Aesop’s Fables unit the children move to the story of the Lion and the Mouse. They show how the Lion catches the Mouse and then sets him free, only to be caught ...