Laura Gibbs teaches online courses in Mythology and Folklore for the University of Oklahoma. She joined the OU faculty in 1999 after completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught both Latin and Polish. She has translated Aesops Fables into English for the Oxford Worlds Classics series, and developed an ancillary online library of Aesops fables in English, Latin, and Greek at www.Aesopica.net. She is also author of Latin Via Proverbs: 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin and a follow-up volume, Vulgate Verses: 4000 Sayings from the Bible. You can find out more about Lauras teaching and web publications at www.MythFolklore.net.