"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 ...

Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...